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  1. Athlete Stella Walsh interview and athletic demonstration

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1, 1931
    Topics: Intersex people, LGBTQ+ immigrants
    Subject: 1932 Olympic Games, Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Stefania Walasiewicz, Stella Walsh
    Description: Video footage with audio of professional athlete Stella Walsh training and discussing her goal to become a naturalized citizen and compete in the 1932 Olympics for the U.S.
  2. Early 1910s silent movie comedy with Wallace Beery dressed as a woman in parlor flirting with man

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator: Paramount Pictures
    Date: 1932
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Drag performers
    Subject: Paramount Screen Souveniers, Wallace Beery
    Description: Short silent film with a character in drag played by Wallace Beery.
  3. 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'.
  4. 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...
  5. Columbia University Student Chorus Line of Men in Women's Costumes

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1934
    Topics: Crossdressing, Dance, Drag, Performing arts
    Subject: Lyla Roberti, Mae West
    Description: VS row of stockinged chorus line legs dancing / Pan up legs to reveal that the dancers are all men in tutus and stockings / CU man in blond wig, earrings, feather boa, and hat (Mae West) sings / MS...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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.
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. MacGregor and West Issue, Side Line (1942)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: May 11, 1942
    Topics: Actors, Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators
    Description: Animated title introducing comedians MacGregor and West of the Windmill Theatre. They perform a comedy sketch in a solicitor's office set. MacGregor is a solicitor and West (in drag) is a cantanker...
  12. World War II drag show on board US transport ship

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 1, 1943
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Gender expression
    Subject: United States Navy, World War II
    Description: Short video of a military drag show on a U.S. transport ship during World War II.
  13. MacGregor and West Issue, Swing Time (1943)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 27, 1943
    Topics: Actors, Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators, Marriage
    Description: Comedians from Windmill Theatre, MacGregor and West, do sketch set in a matrimonial agency. One of them is the owner of the marriage agency, the other is dressed in drag as a cantankerous old widow.
  14. Look Out!, Mcgregor And West (1944)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 3, 1944
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators
    Description: Comedy act of two men in drag as old women in Victorian costume - no soundtrack. Various shots of a variety act consisting of two men in drag as old women in Victorian dress. One visits the othe...
  15. Sex Change GI Back in USA

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: 1953?
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Military occupations, MtFs, Trans women, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen
    Description: Soldier Christine Joregensen had a sex change in Denmark and returns home to the US. V. Towards, Christine Jorgensen alighting from 'plane. LV. Towards, Christine walking through crowd. SCU. Chr...