Those Awful Hats (1909)

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2 min - Comedy | Short - 25 January 1909 (USA)

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Set in an early cinema house, this comic short illustrates the problems with the gals' hats obscuring the movie patron's line of vision.

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Cast

Credited cast:
	Mack Sennett	...	Man in checkered jacket and top hat
	Flora Finch	...	Woman with largest hat
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Linda Arvidson	...	Theatre Audience
	John R. Cumpson	...	Theatre Audience
	George Gebhardt	...	Theatre Audience
	Robert Harron	...	Theatre Audience
	Anita Hendrie	...	Theatre Audience
	Charles Inslee	...	Theatre Audience
	Arthur V. Johnson	...	Theatre Audience
	Florence Lawrence	...	Theatre Audience
	Gertrude Robinson	...	Theatre Audience
	Dorothy West	...	Theatre Audience

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Storyline

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. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>

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