Review of Those Awful Hats

A very amusing D. W. Griffith short featuring an appearance by future producer/director Mack Sennett. The entire 3-minute short, Those Awful Hats, takes place in a nickelodeon as we see an audience watching a movie up on the screen (one of the earliest depictions of a film-within-a-film scene). Most of the action concerns ladies who won't take off their hats. There is one particular lady who gets so obnoxious about it a steel bucket takes it from her! After the other ladies take theirs off, another lady keeps making a scene by keeping hers on, so that bucket then takes her up! The end. Well worth seeing for fans of Griffith, Sennett, and anyone interested in early movie history. I managed to see this one on YouTube.