Those Awful Hats

1909 film

January 25, 1909 (1909-01-25)

Running time

Original length 185 feet (under 3 minutes)^[1]CountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent
(English intertitles)

End screen.

Those Awful Hats is a 1909 American short comedy film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Mack Sennett. It takes place in a small, crowded movie theatre, where the patrons are perpetually distracted by people - primarily women - wearing large, ostentatious hats that obstruct everyone else's views of the screen. Slapstick disorder ensues. The film ends with a title card reading, "Ladies Will Please Remove Their Hats." A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.^[2]

Cast

Mack Sennett as Man in checkered jacket
Flora Finch as Woman with largest hat
Linda Arvidson as Theatre Audience
John R. Cumpson as Theatre Audience
George Gebhardt as Theatre Audience
Robert Harron as Theatre Audience
Anita Hendrie as Theatre Audience
Charles Inslee as Theatre Audience
Arthur V. Johnson as Theatre Audience
Florence Lawrence as Theatre Audience
Gertrude Robinson as Theatre Audience
Dorothy West as Theatre Audience

See also

1909 in film
D. W. Griffith filmography

References

^ "Those Awful Hats", film promotion, The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), 23 January 1909, p. 83. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Those Awful Hats". Silent Era. Retrieved November 24, 2008.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Those Awful Hats.

Those Awful Hats at IMDb
Those Awful Hats on YouTube
Those Awful Hats available for free download at Internet Archive

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Films directed by D. W. Griffith

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The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
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