The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,550 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/

ACLAIRR Directory of Latin American and Iberian Audiovisual Collections, UK
ACLAIIR provides advice and information on Latin America and Iberia, acting as a focus for Latin American and Iberian studies in acadmic and specialist libraries in the UK. This listing of audiovisual resources covers 24 organisations and academic institutions, with a brief description of the nature and scope of each collection, along with contact details and information about access. In most cases, details about the holdings (including radio broadcasts, documentaries, and feature films) can be accessed via the institutions’ online catalogues.

Mediated Cultures
Michael Wesch is an American cultural anthropologist, whose area of academic interest concerns the ways in which people use digital media and how new media affects human interaction. In order to explore human uses of digital technology, Wesch formed the Digital Ethnography Working Group with a group of his students at the University of Kansas. At the same time he posted a video The Machine is Us/ing Us on YouTube which advances the idea that digital technology will change everything: the use of hyperlinks and xml will create an interconnected digital world in the image of those who have created it. Wesch’s point is that we need to be aware of this in order to make it happen – so that we use the Machine rather than vice versa.

His ideas are explored in more depth in An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube. Both videos are also available on this site (and can be downloaded as wmv or Quicktime files) along with other audiovisual material, made by Wesch and his students, together with a thought-provoking blog.

Minute Earth
Short science videos featuring attractively animated drawings, accompanied by informative commentaries. The videos are aimed at a general audience and feature titles like Why Does the Earth Have Deserts?, Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? and How High Can Mountains Be? Also available at iTunes.

Natural History Museum Treasures Podcast
This series of podcasts accompanies the Natural History Museum’s Treasures gallery. Each episode focuses on an object which changed science in some way. Scientists, curators, artists and other experts discuss Apollo moon rock, Charles Darwin’s pigeons, Neanderthal man’s skull, Guy the gorilla, Iguanadon teeth and Blaschka glass models. The podcasts are in mp3 format and are free to download or stream.

Virtual Urchin
Look no further than this website for interactive video tutorials on the life cycle of the sea urchin. Produced by a team of marine biologists and educational technology specialists at Stanford University, the tutorials themselves feature quizzes, animations, guides to experiments, virtual microscopy and a time-lapse video showing twenty hours of sea urchin embryo development in thirty seconds. There is also a Teachers’ Resources page and useful links. Flash player required.