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Those Awful Hats (1909)

Director(s) D.W. Griffith
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No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Comedy, Drama, Short Films, Silent Films
More Films Directed by D.W. Griffith More Films from 1909 More Films from the 1900s Top Classic Movies of the 1900s

Those Awful Hats Overview:

Those Awful Hats (1909) was a Comedy - Silent Films Film directed by D.W. Griffith .

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Slapstick Summer Series: Ladies, Please! | Those Awful Hats (1909)

By chrisgiddens on Jul 16, 2012 From The Giddy Blog

Although rudimentary and often too-easily dismissed, Those Awful Hats is a must-see for all fans of early cinema and film history. Reasons being (in no particular order): We’re treated to a live-action PSA of the famous theater slides which asked women to remove their giant hats so as to not... Read full article

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Several sources (including the BFI) credit Arthur Marvin as the cinematographer instead of G.W. Bitzer
Is thought to be one of the very first, if not the first, theatrical public service announcements. Ladies were told to remove their hats in the cinema or the nickelodeons, or face expulsion. Today we have announcements about noise, babies, cell phones, etc. that are in the same vein.
The film utilized the Dunning-Pomeroy Matte process (an early predecessor to blue-screening). When this film was originally being restored, the elements for the film that is projected in the picture were lost. As an inside joke, the restorers filled it in with a scene from At the Crossroads of Life, a picture that D.W. Griffith himself starred in.
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