Digital Transgender Archive

Search Results

Search Constraints

You searched for: Genre Motion Pictures Remove constraint Genre: Motion Pictures Institution British Pathé Remove constraint Institution: British Pathé

Search Results

  1. 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...
  2. Hetty King And George Mozart Entertain In Aid Of Hospital- Part 1 (1914-1918)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1918
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Dance, Drag, Male impersonators, Military
    Subject: George Mozart, Hetty King
    Description: Comics Hetty King and George Mozart entertain people for charity. Charity event. High angle shots of cricket match in progress and running race. M/Ss of comics on stage. One appear to be dressed...
  3. Hetty King And George Mozart Entertain In Aid Of Hospital- Part 2 (1914-1918)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1918
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Male impersonators, Military
    Subject: George Mozart, Hetty King
    Description: Comics Hetty King and George Mozart entertain people for charity. Continued from previous record. Charity event. Hetty King continues to drag man over finish line. M/Ss of Hetty King dancing aro...
  4. 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 ...
  5. 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...
  6. Clothes and the Woman! (1923)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 27, 1923
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Male impersonators
    Subject: Hetty King
    Description: The fabulous Hetty King impersonates various contemporary male types - toff, cowboy, eastender, among others. "Here's a lady whom everybody knows - when on the stage - Guess - " M/S of a drawing...
  7. Degree Day Rag By Trinity Students (1926)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 10, 1926
    Topics: Drag, Stereotypes, Universities
    Description: Various shots of students in fancy dress messing about on the steps to an old college building; some are dressed in drag, others as racial stereotypes (Arabs, African tribesmen etc.) and historical...
  8. 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. ...
  9. Hon. Quick Change (1930)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 21, 1930
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Geishas
    Description: Japanese man kneeling down on a podium in front of a curtain. He has two drawers of clothes beside him. He puts on various items of clothing and turns himself into a Geisha Girl - a Japanese Drag Q...
  10. 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...
  11. 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'.
  12. 1950? (1933)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 24, 1933
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Dancers, Drag
    Description: Men in drag perform a high kick routine. "Will it ever come to this?" M/S of a group of actors being made up for a stage performance. They are all boys in drag. The drag queens stand with th...
  13. Following in Father's Footsteps, No. 2, with Ralph Coram and Bill Coram (1935)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: May 27, 1935
    Topics: Actors, Arts and entertainment occupations, Celebrities, Crossdressing, Dance, Drag, Families
    Subject: Betty Errol, Bill Coram, Edith Grossmith, Ralph Coram
    Description: Ralph Coram hosts an entertainment segment featuring the children of famous performers. Performances include song, dance, and drag. L/S's and M/S's of Ralph Coram standing next to a microphone i...
  14. Meet The Girl Who Became A Man (1937)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: 1937
    Topics: FtMs, Gender identity, Masculinities, Transgender people
    Subject: Peter Alexander
    Description: Peter Alexander, interviewed in Sydney, born and brought up as Mavis Higgins in New Zealand, speaks of his sex change from female to male. He discusses the aspects of his personality when younger w...
  15. Ella Shields (1937)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 7, 1937
    Topics: Characters, Crossdressing, Male impersonators, Songs
    Subject: Ella Shields
    Description: Ella Shields, cross dressed and with glasses, singing `I'm Not All There' seated at office desk with several telephones and papers on it.