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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... -
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... -
News Flashes- New York- Woman of the Year (1953)
Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Mar. 16, 1953 Topics: Awards, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Trans women, Transgender people Subject: Christine Jorgensen Description: Christine Jorgenson receives an award for contribution to science for her gender realignment surgery. -
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... -
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... -
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...
