The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,700 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/

APAC: Association of Performing Arts Collections
APAC, established 2015, is the Subject Specialist Network of performing arts collections in the UK and Ireland, and exists to offer a forum for discussing issues in performing arts heritage through regular meetings, an email listserv, study days and symposia. The UK Theatre Database will retrieve details of organisations which hold moving image and sound collections in their libraries and resource centres. It is the UK affiliate of SIDMAS, the International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts.

Moving Image Education
Moving Image Education aims to help young people to question, analyse,explore and understand the meaning of what they’re watching and hearing. The free resources, activities, information and guidance on the site are ideally suited to the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence across all areas and stages, but also for everyone working with groups of all ages and abilities. Topics addressed are the nature of truth and reality, censorship and expressionism. The analysing film section helps students understand the role of narrative, sound, colour and camerawork, There are guides to help students with their own filmmaking.

Resurrected Visions on YouTube: The Large Door Channel
John Ellis, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, makes selections from the hundreds of programmes in the VISION magazine series produced for Channel 4 in the 1980s and 1990s by the now defunct independent film company Large Door. Titles include BRAZIL: BEYOND CITIZEN KANE (1993), Simon Hartog’s definitive history of TV in Brazil and the role of TV Globo and CINEMA IN CHINA (1983), a film outlining, for the first time ever, the history of filmmaking in China, presented by Tony Rayns. Professor Ellis observations on using YouTube as a medium to disseminate content originally broadcast on television can be found on his blog.

Stephen Hawking
The official website of astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking. The Video tab lists the series Stephen Hawking’s Grand Designs, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking and Stephen Hawking’s Universe with links to purchase at amazon.com. There are also links to interviews and lectures hosted on YouTube; these include Hawking’s appearance on The Simpsons, the 50th NASA Anniversary Lecture and a lecture delivered at the White House in 1998 introduced by Hillary Clinton. The site also provides transcripts of some of Hawking’s lectures and a list of his publications.