Time Traveller in 82 Year Old film

[Fresh8]

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An 82-year-old film clip from a Charlie Chaplin movie premiere that appears to show a woman talking on a mobile phone has baffled movie buffs and caused an online sensation.

George Clarke, a film festival organiser from Belfast, claims to have discovered the puzzling vision, shot in 1928, on a Charlie Chaplin DVD. Mr Clarke said he studied the black-and-white film and sent it to his colleagues before uploading the scene to YouTube. The video clip shows a woman dressed in a dark cloak and hat walking past a sign for Charlie Chaplin's film "The Circus."

She appears to be speaking into a device that looks remarkably like a mobile phone. Mr Clarke said there was no rational explanation for the clip. "Right now the only conclusion I can come to, which sounds absolutely ridiculous I'm sure to some people, but it's a time traveller," he said. "It's kind of strange, you can't explain it."

I'm thinking it's a fake. What are your thoughts on this?

[shadowgrin]

That or a woman covering here face from sunlight who happens to be holding a purse.

[J@3]

This is a hearing aid from 1920:

http://antiquescientifica.com/hearing_aid_ivory_bb.jpg

Now imagine how that would look if you used it. Ear piece goes in your ear and the rest of it goes across the side of your face. If you were to cover it with your hand would look a hell of a lot like you're holding a phone.

[Alpha_]

She's just fixing her/his earring.

[Angelo]

Fake

[Andrew]

Either a fake or a new urban myth, similar to the supposed "Hanging Munchkin" scene in Wizard of Oz.

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[koberulz]

Has anyone stopped to consider that a mobile phone wouldn't work in 1920, even if you had one?

[Patr1ck]

Just another case of human imagination.

[Fresh8]

Has anyone stopped to consider that a mobile phone wouldn't work in 1920, even if you had one?

She's a time traveller. Her reception is better than what we have in the modern day.

[Phil89]

Has anyone stopped to consider that a mobile phone wouldn't work in 1920, even if you had one?

Exactly. Plus, who would she be calling anyway?

[Fresh8]

Has anyone stopped to consider that a mobile phone wouldn't work in 1920, even if you had one?

Exactly. Plus, who would she be calling anyway?

Back to the future obviously.

[Phil89]

[Patr1ck]

Your right. If it can travel through time, than it can obviously send calls through time.

[benji]

Everyone is thinking inside the box. It's obvious not even a human, instead it's a space alien holding either a translator box to hear what's being said around them or some form of communication device with their orbiting ship.

Someone should travel back to say, 1928, and ask someone seeing the film what the person is doing. Of course the body language will look like a cell phone to us. Someone from that era might better identify it as the space alien ti is.

Has anyone stopped to consider that a mobile phone wouldn't work in 1920, even if you had one?

A modern cell phone, no, as the networks wouldn't exist. But radio-based "phones" existed in the 1920s and were primary battlefield communication devices during World War II.

[koberulz]

Has anyone stopped to consider that a mobile phone wouldn't work in 1920, even if you had one?

A modern cell phone, no, as the networks wouldn't exist. But radio-based "phones" existed in the 1920s and were primary battlefield communication devices during World War II.

But if it were that, there'd be no time travel necessary.

[J@3]

I like how the guy who discovered this, the filmmaker or whoever he is has the attitude of "well I can't explain it and I don't believe what anyone else says so clearly the only possible explanation is time travel".

[shadowgrin]

lol at koberulz and Phil. If people managed to make a time travelling device/machine, what makes you think they are not capable of making a phone that doesn't need the network technology we are using today?

I would give you guys the facepalm but I thought about it beforehand too but I figured they have advanced tech considering the time travelling thing.

[Phil89]

Well, what makes you think that such an advanced society with time travelling devices would still be using handheld phones?

[shadowgrin]

Well, what makes you think that a handheld device isn't 'advanced' enough for a such a society that's capable of time travel?

[Phil89]

Because obviously if they have time travel technology, they're going to have personal communication chips implanted in their brains that are connected to phone networks and internet.

Or maybe that was just in a movie I saw...