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  1. 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...
  2. Athlete Stella Walsh

     
    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: Newsreel footage of professional athlete Stella Walsh, who speaks about wanting to compete in the 1932 Olympics and becoming a U.S. citizen.
  3. Athlete Stella Walsh does stretching exercises

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1, 1931
    Topics: Intersex people, LGBTQ+ immigrants
    Subject: Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Stefania Walasiewicz, Stella Walsh
    Description: Video footage of professional athlete Stella Walsh doing exercises. Includes audio voice-over narration describing the exercises.
  4. 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.
  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. 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.
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. Princeton's Triangle Club Performance with Male Students Dressed as Cowboys and Dancing Girls

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1930
    Topics: Crossdressers, Dancers, Drag, Musicals, Performing arts
    Description: Title card: "Princeton's 'Fair Sex' star in show!" / high angle view of stage with men dressed as cowboys and Latina women dancing onto stage / ground level of dancers in unison with dancing feet /...
  10. Rev J.M. Gates - "Manish Women" (1930)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1930
    Topics: Appearance, Black people, Femininities, Gender role, Masculinities, Sexism
    Subject: J.M. Gates
    Description: Rev Gates was probably the most successful ministers in the South. He was definitely of the fire-and-brimstone call-and-response type, and was unique in that many of his sermons were recorded, abou...
  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'.