New to Moving Image Gateway
Published: 22 May 2015The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,650 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/
American Museum of Natural History
The Museum’s mission is to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging programme of scientific research, education, and exhibition. The Museum hosts a YouTube channel where many videos are streamed. Titles include the 2015 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate where experts discuss the future of water on earth; SciCafe: Mapping the Urban Microbiome, Genome and Metagenome and Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease.
Centre for Visual Music
CVM houses growing collections related to visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation and avant-garde media. CVM’s archives house the world’s largest collection of resources on Visual Music. The collections (the majority freely accessible online) include film/video/digital media and related papers, books, artwork, documentation, photography and artifacts. Committed to the curation, preservation, promotion and access to these multimedia collections, the Archive holds collections of artists whose careers reflect unique aspects of cinema. CVM’s collections include preserved film material for artists including Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, Charles Dockum, John and James Whitney, Harry Smith, Pat O’Neill, John Stehura and others. CVM organises screenings and events and from 2015 has hosted selected films and video clips at a CVM channel on Vimeo.com.
Irish Film Archive
The Archive acquires, preserves and makes available Ireland’s moving image heritage. The collection is broad, aiming to reflect all aspects of indigenous film production, whether professional or amateur. It incorporates fiction, features, public information films, amateur material, documentary, newsreel, experimental film and animation. The Archive maintains a research library covering all aspects of Irish and international cinema and a Paper Collection providing primary research material on the history of Irish film. It organises film screenings courses and lectures. A small number of podcasts related to discussions of Irish cinema are streamed.
Peabody Awards Collection
This Collection consists of over 90,000 titles, with radio programmes dating from 1940 and television from 1948. The collection consists of almost all the entries to the awards programme since its beginning in 1941. It contains American, local, and more currently, international, electronic media programs, with content from news, documentary, entertainment, educational, children’s, and public service programming. There are radio transcription discs, audiotape, audiocassettes, 16mm kinescopes and prints, 2″ videoreels, videocassettes, websites, and objects associated with the collection. Many of the programmes in the collection may be only surviving copies of the work,especially in the case of local radio and television broadcasting. A database contains records for most of the Peabody Awards entries received between 1940 to date. Programmes may be accessed on site at the University of Georgia libraries.
Wellesnet: the Orson Welles Web Resource
Founded in 2001 by Jeff Wilson Wellesnet is an online source of definitive and thoroughly researched information about the life, career and work of Orson Welles. A filmography provides links to DVD retailers. Select scenes and rare footage are streamed (for example VOODOO MACBETH (1936) at the Federal Theatre. Screenplays are available online. Many radio plays and appearances are streamed including the Mercury Theatre in the Air series. There is a messageboard giving information about unfinished films, retrospectives, books and DVD releases and links to other websites with relevant content.