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Very disappointing...

Sick Product of a Sick System

Pretty Good

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Under the considered Biographs he has made "Those Awful Hats" is disparate; It's a simple, comical, farce with people in an audience going through an experience through a very different medium from any other excursions they were accustomed to and this certainly mirrors a different style to me. It's a different style as what's being experienced is a prestidigitation and that's slightly different to his usual tone in Cinema. It's almost like a Kinetoscope version of "Those Awful Hats" in its aspect ratio and anamorphic screen size, the way it's stretched out on its pristine format. Regardless of its short screen time, points of interest include Griffith's first wife, Linda Arvidson, as one of the stellar's in the movie and Mark Sinnet who is also in it. Apart from that, it's only really interesting as it is one of the first projects Griffith ever embarked on as prior to this he was a vaudevillian stage actor. He was also in "Rescued from an Eagle's Nest" in 1907.

I wonder if this was a major problem a long time ago. I'll bet it was. I am referring to the subject matter of this early and very short D.W. Griffith film: rude people wearing big hats to the theater and blocking the view of those in back of them.Considering that people have probably been inconsiderate for as long as humans have inhabited the planet, this might have been a problem. Since people haven't word big hats in a generation or two, a lot of people don't remember "big hat days." Whatever, it makes for an amusing little film with a unique suggestion to dealing with the problem! If people were slow to get the message, the director put in print at the end.The special-effects aren't exactly state-of-the-art for today's audiences but I bet they shocked the film-goers 99 years ago, when this was seen.

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.

those awful hats has a surprisingly funny and witty plot, despite it's short lenght and real purpose. the film serves as an experiment for griffith, who tries out new and interesting things, succeeding brilliantly, i think. the early trick with 'film on film', what we call the blue screen technique today, works well for it's time. i'm curious about the restoring process, and overall about griffith, i have no sufficient info to give an in depth analysis, i just have to count on what i see on the screen. the bucket works nicely. i would be certainly interested to learn more about the making of this short.surprisingly good, really. i don't know anything about film technology, so this from a guy who just likes films; 7/10the first griffith film i saw, more to be seen in the weeks to come.