| Those Awful Hats | |
| Director: | D. W. Griffith |
| Starring: | Mack Sennett |
| Cinematography: | G. W. Bitzer |
| Runtime: | Original length 185 feet (under 3 minutes)[1] |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
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.[2]