Welcome to 1923!

We're talking the final straw that broke Hollywood and prompted the Hays Code, the Berkeley fire, and the persistent proposals of King George VI that led to a very fancy wedding.

All of this, plus the year's top 5 songs and top 5 silent films.

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Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow

https://www.filmsite.org/1923.html

 

http://m.american-historama.org/1929-1945-depression-ww2-era/hays-code.htm

 

http://users.monash.edu/~pringle/silent/ssotm/Dec97/

 

https://www.goldensilents.com/stars/wallacereid.html

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4130094/amp

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/timeline.com/amp/p/6b27a1404552

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/19/moguls-and-starlets-100-years-of-hollywoods-corrosive-systemic-sexism 

 

IMDb

https://tsort.info/music/yr1923.htm

https://www.nickiswift.com/118335/horrific-ways-old-hollywood-studios-abused-actors/?utm_campaign=clip

https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/looking-back-at-the-wedding-of-king-george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-80990/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_Albert,_Duke_of_York,_and_Lady_Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyonhttps://www.unofficialroyalty.com/wedding-of-king-george-vi-of-the-united-kingdom-and-lady-elizabeth-bowes-lyon/

https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/sites/default/files/files/inline/bplhstrm_979.467_st76_the_story_of_the_berkeley_fire.pdf

http://www.sfmuseum.org/oakfire/berkeley.html

https://www.ebparks.org/parks/wildcat/

https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Home.aspx