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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
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Motion Pictures
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British Pathé
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Miss Ella Shields (1930)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Dec. 15, 1930 Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag, Male impersonators, Songs Subject: Ella Shields Description: Ella Shields - male impersonator - dressed in top hat and tails, enters Palm Court type set, goes to a telephone and asks "Do I want a line? - Yes, I want a line, I want Sweet Adeline". She then si... -
Okay For Hounds, Warden And West Issue (1937)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Oct. 21, 1937 Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators Description: Windmill Theatre drag act - Biddy and Fanny (aka comedians Warden and West). Various shots of two men dressed as old ladies sitting in a set of a drawing room. They bicker and complain about the st... -
Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 644 - Quick Change Artist, Master Drivers And Railway Vicar 1967
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: 1967 Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art Subject: Ricky Renee Description: Video clips from an outtake real featuring cabaret performer Ricky Renee. -
Quick Change Artist (1967)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Apr. 20, 1967 Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Cabaret, Crossdressing, Drag queens Subject: Ricky Renee Description: L/S of a Rolls Royce arriving at Ricky Renee's cabaret club (it passes the Fortune Theatre) in daylight. A glamorous blonde in a fur stole gets out of the car; this turns out to really be cabaret s... -
Ringing The Changes (1922)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Apr. 20, 1922 Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators Subject: Bert Errol Description: Drag act Bert Errol is seen in his dressing room - he changes from men's clothes to women's. C/U of Bert in his dressing room. He looks into a hand mirror and primps his hair whilst a woman atte... -
Roberta Wins Hill Climb
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Sep. 5, 1957 Topics: Automobile racing, Motorsports, MtFs, Shelsley Walsh Hill-climb Race, Transgender people, Transsexual people Subject: Roberta Cowell, Tony Marsh, W.B. Croot Description: Roberta Cowell (wartime fighter pilot who had sex change operation) wearing head scarf round her head, examining the engine of her car with a mechanic in the pits, camera pans up and we look down o... -
Soldiers Concert Party (1914-1918)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: circa 1918 Topics: Actors, Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag, Female impersonators, Military, Racism, Theatre, World war I Description: A group of actors, some in drag, perform a World War I era show. Entertainment; World War One. Military show. Pan across group of actors: A soldier with a bunch of clowns and a guy in drag in a ... -
South Africa: Woman Who Had Sex Change Is Now Happily Married; Interview With Mr And Mrs Ashley
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Jul. 10, 1965 Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Legal name change, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Melanie Ashley, Robin Ashley Description: A short interview with Melanie Ashley and Robin Ashley, in which Melanie's gender transition is discussed. -
Spain: Riots And Strikes Again Hit The Troubled Basque Region. 1979
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd. Date: Jun. 14, 1979 Topics: Anti-LGBTQ+ violence, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Transvestites Subject: Police Brutality Description: Short video of protests against Basque police after an off-duty police officer killed a "transvestite" -
Stepping Out, Warden and West Issue (1939)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Oct. 5, 1939 Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators Description: Warden and West, comedy stars of the Windmill Theatre: the duo are male comedians in drag playing parts of saucy old Irish women, Biddy and Fanny. The set is designed to look like a park, the two s... -
The Jubilee Duettists (1933)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: 1933 Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag, Female impersonators, Male impersonators, Songs Description: The Jubilee Duettists perform the old-fashioned song 'Twickenham Ferry'. -
The Laughter Cure (1914-1918)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: 1914 Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag, Male impersonators Subject: Ernie Lotinga, Hetty King Description: Ernie Lotinga and Hettie King amuse wounded. Wounded and convalescent soldiers watch two entertainers in grounds of large building. Lotinga dressed as comical sailor, King as a man in suit. Audienc... -
The Rivals- Some Chippings From the New Splinters Dancing Troupe (1928)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: 1928 Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Dancers, Drag, Female impersonators, Performing arts Description: A 1920s drag act imitating chorus girls. M/S of what appears to be a troupe of chorus girls doing a high kick routine in the Pathe studio. There is one main dancer and six girls dancing behind. ... -
United States: Transsexual Woman Tennis Player, Defeats 15 Year Old Girl In Second Round Match At New Jersey Tennis Club Tournament. 1976
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd. Date: Aug. 26, 1976 Topics: Trans women, Transsexual people Subject: Caroline Stoll, New Jersey Tennis Club Tournament, Renee Richards Description: Video and transcript from Reuters/NBC newsreel footage with commentary on a 1976 match featuring tennis player Renee Richards. -
West Berlin: Ball Of The Year For Transvestites. 1978
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd. Date: Nov. 12, 1978 Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Gender expression, Transvestites Description: Transcript and video from a drag ball held in West Berlin in November 1978.
