A hussar sits down on a park bench with a pretty maid. While he tries to charm her by playing with the baby, her older charge switches their hats.
It's a fairly funny picture, in large part because the two older people neither notice the new headgear they are wearing, nor notice that the other's is changed. It's a convention in silent movies that people don't hear anything, no matter how loud it might be in reality. This one cuts the characters' attention to even smaller zones. Of course, the implication is that they are fully focused on the person they are flirting with, but the implication is amusing.
It's a fairly funny picture, in large part because the two older people neither notice the new headgear they are wearing, nor notice that the other's is changed. It's a convention in silent movies that people don't hear anything, no matter how loud it might be in reality. This one cuts the characters' attention to even smaller zones. Of course, the implication is that they are fully focused on the person they are flirting with, but the implication is amusing.