1923: Welcome to Hollywood... land

We finally leave behind 1922 and move onto 1923.  So what's happening? Time magazine is published for the first time in March, Yankee Stadium opens its gates in April and President Warren G. Harding dies in office in August.  Most important for me though?  The premiere of Hockey Night in Canada as a radio show.  I'm a Flyers fan, but I have a great respect for the history of the sport and it is amazing that the flagship program has been around for so long.

In 1923, the famous Hollywoodland sign was erected to advertise a housing development.  In movies, the Fleischer brothers produce the first feature length animated film, a documentary about Albert Einstein.  In a strange bit of serendipity, Cecil B. DeMille releases his original version of The Ten Commandments the same year that Charles Heston is born.  Heston would star in DeMille's remake of the movie 34 years later.  A new technology for recording sound on the edge of film strips debuted in New York.  This method would become the industry standard.

What are we watching?  The Ten Commandments has already arrived from Netflix so that is a given.  The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Lon Chaney is a definite.  I also absolutely have to see Safety Last! which is considered by some to be the definitive Harold Lloyd film.