Those Awful Hats (1909)
- Directed by
- D. W. Griffith
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 3 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 57 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In a crowded movie theater, people keep getting annoyed by women wearing big hats that block the screen. Slapstick comedy follows as viewers try to see the film.
playfullightheartedslapstickbriefperiod-piecemildly-frustratingdistractingcomic-chaos
What happens
Those Awful Hats is a 1909 American short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Mack Sennett and Flora Finch. It was released on January 25, 1909 by Biograph Studios. The film takes place in a small, crowded movie theatre while a film is in progress. 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." Archivist David Shepard of Blackhawk Films explained how G. W. Bitzer photographed the film: "The image in the theater and the image on the theater screen were photographed separately, and the final effect was achieved by double printing and use of a traveling matte." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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