Those Awful Hats

{{short description|1909 film}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2018}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Those Awful Hats

| image = Those Awful Hats.webm

| caption = {{left|Play full film; running time 00:02:40}}

| director = D. W. Griffith

| producer =

| writer = D.W. Griffith

| starring = Mack Sennett

| cinematography = G. W. Bitzer

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{film date|1909|1|25}}

| runtime = Original length 185 feet (under 3 minutes)[https://archive.org/details/moviwor04chal/page/83/mode/2up?view=theater "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.

| country = United States

| language = Silent
(English intertitles)

}}

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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/ThoseAwfulHats1909.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Those Awful Hats |access-date=November 24, 2008|work=Silent Era}}