Those Awful Hats

• Mack Sennett - Man in plaid Jacket
• Flora Finch - Woman with the biggest hat
• Linda Arvidson - theater visitor
• John R. Cumpson - theatergoers
• George Gebhardt - theatergoers
• Robert Harron - theatergoers
• Anita Hendrie - theater visitor
• Charles Inslee - theatergoers
• Arthur V. Johnson - theatergoers
• Florence Lawrence - theater visitor
• Gertrude Robinson - theater visitor
• Dorothy West - theater visitor

Those Awful Hats is an American comedy from 1909. Directed by DW Griffith, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was released on 25 January 1909.

Action

During a presentation at a cinema enters a woman with a hat cinema and searches for a suitable space they initially can not find. A little later you come against a man with a plaid jacket and cylinder and helps her to find a seat where they can leave on her hat.

As he seeks a place he is reprimanded by some viewers and a little later to enter some more ladies with a hat on his head the cinema. You sit in front of the nose of the audience and leave their hats on. The audience, which the view is denied, reacts extremely annoying and finally tried a crane to pull the hats upwards.

At the end of the film, a text box will appear on the stands ". Ladies want to please remove your hats "

Background information

The film promotes the mutual respect in the cinema and one of the first films that were produced by the public to inform them of what is heard in the cinema. This type of film to the present day used for the correct behavior in the cinema. However, the confounding factors have changed since then, hats were then mentioned as confounders, now more mobile phones are considered as confounding factors.

The scenes shown on the big screen come from the film At the Crossroads of Life from 1908 by director Wallace McCutcheon Jr.. The screenplay for this film comes from DW Griffith.