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/

Audio Arts
Since its inception, by British artist William Furlong in 1972, the sound art magazine, Audio Arts, hosted by the Tate Gallery, has a claim to be one of the most comprehensive and coherently focused aural archive of artists’ voices and sound art in the world. An index list of all 24 volumes from Audio Arts published between 1973 and 2006 is available. Highlights include an interview with Andy Warhol in July 1986 when he visited London for his exhibition of large self portraits at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London and a rare recording in which Gerhard Richter discusses his series of works The London Paintings also exhibiting at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery. The cataloguing information given with each recording is informative. An index list of all 24 volumes from Audio Arts published between 1973 and 2006.

Conservative Party Archive
The Archive, held at the Bodlean Libraries, University of Oxford, holds a small but growing audiovisual collection, in a variety of formats ranging from gramophone recordings of Stanley Baldwin’s speech at an election rally in 1928 to WebCameron footage on Mini-DV tapes following David Cameron’s progress during the 2010 General Election campaign. The majority of the collection consists of recordings of annual Conservative Party conferences and party political broadcasts. A more complete collection of both of these can be found at the BFI National Archive, which also holds copies of early films produced by the Conservative & Unionist Films Association from the 1930s-1940s. A list of what has been identified and catalogued so far can be found here. The Archive holds a large quantity of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs records and speech transcripts.

Fifty Years of Coca Cola Television Advertisements
Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. The online collection includes five excerpts from stop-motion advertising developed for Coca-Cola between 1954 and 1956 by the D’Arcy agency and makes public for the first time eighteen excerpts from the Experimental TV Color Project of 1964, which determined the best lighting for the cans, bottles, and performers in television advertisements. Featured advertisements include the 1971 “Hilltop” commercial with an international group of young people on an Italian hilltop singing “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”; the “Mean Joe Greene” commercial from 1979; the first “Polar Bear” commercial from 1993; the “Snowflake” commercial from 1999; and “First Experience,” an international commercial filmed in Morocco in 1999. The site includes a bibliography, a history of television advertising and a timeline of advertising themes.

Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image
The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) is an interdisciplinary organisation made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, neurophysiological, and evolutionary-psychological approaches to the analysis of film and other moving-image media. The society is on the forefront of studying how moving-image media shape and are shaped by human psychological activity. SCSMI members are interested in all moving-image-based arts and entertainments, from computer games, to video art installations, to political advertisements, to surveillance systems. SCSMI members are interested in all aspects of these arts and entertainments, as well, from music and editing to narrative structure and ideological effects. The SCSMI announces conferences and publications which further its aims.