Those Awful Hats 1909

A gentleman with a top hat, and a series of women with ever more ludicrous hats enter a movie theatre. They refuse to remove them, until a giant bucket forcibly removes one hat. All but one woman then remove their hats, and the bucket returns to remove the woman.

Those Awful Hats
(1909) American
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Flora Finch, Linda Arvidson, Mack Sennett, Arthur V. Johnson, John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Those
• Awful
• Hats
• 1909
• old
• comedy
• silent
• movie
• B&W

[msharaff]

The lady in a white dress with a floral hat is Florence Lawrence.

[capnskull]

thats an awesome name.

[MrJamesBond007]

Wow! That was made 100 years ago. Sad that all those people would have passed on by now. These old movies always give me more perspective on life.

One amazing thing I noticed......was that picture overlay (the movie screen top left) in the original movie. For 1909 that was done so well. Especially the ladies moving in front of the movie screen. Although teh effect made the main picture a bit wobbly. Still great for the era.

[msharaff]

I have been researching about Florence Lawrence for a long time. Recently I discovered some stills from this D. W. Griffith's short that clearly indicated that the lady in a white dress is Ms. Lawrence. In 25 years in the motion picture industry she made 291 movies.

[THEORIGINALWORLD]

If you like Florence try watching a Calamitous Elopement. You'll love it.

[rbbonotto]

I suspect the 'Frenchman' is Mack Sennett. He played excitable foreigners a lot in early Biograph comedies and it looks like Sennett's movements here.

[imkohia]

My grandma has a picture of my great-great grandma and she had a hat like one of those ladies in this movie. Its kinda cool, she would have probably dressed and done things like these ladies

[szewei85]

that is awesome shorts yo...florence lawrence should b called now mary pickford big sister n grandma of silent movies haha

[EmmeJayKay]

1:57 LOL

[jmarcguy]

Florence Lawrence- the first movie star STILL doesn't have a star on the walk of fame?? Absurd! She definitely should be recognized!!!

[MattTheSaiyan]

I like D.W. Griffith's shorts. Some of them are really cute.