Woman on Cell Phone in 1928 Chaplin Film?

[sixmile]

I know it sounds nuts, but please watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3O_qa82RA



http://upcoming.current.com/search?q=Time+Traveler+Caught+On+Charlie+Chaplin+1928+Film+'The+Circus'

More than likely digital manipulation, but hasn't been debunked yet.

[Radical Activist]

1. Well that was a waste of time.

This should be posted in the lounge.

[Uben]

2. Explanation needed?

No. There was no such thing as a cell phone back then, so it could not have been one. So, what was it? Likely, she was experiencing an ear ache and was holding something over her ear, or maybe she was just hiding from the guy with the camera.

[sixmile]

4. I would like to know

Maybe a hearing device?

[JanMichael]

3. Whatever it is, that's a cool video

thanks for sharing!

[boston bean]

5. I kept staring at her feet. nt

[Maine-ah]

6. impossible.

and that site is a tad bit strange...

lets say for shits and giggles she was a "time traveler" there would have been no way to even get a signal on a cell phone since there were no cell phone towers in order to get a signal.

It's interesting though.

[Matariki]

12. It's a Chaplin movie, not a documentary. The character looks like s/he's talking

I haven't seen that movie. Perhaps it's a detective in drag following the guy in front of him? Were there walkie-talkies in 1928, I wonder?

Or maybe Charlie Chaplin was prescient.

[kestrel91316]

29. There were NO walkie talkies in 1928!! The transistor wasn't invented until

the 50's (actually made). Commercial production began in the 60s. Prior to that, electronics as they were (and they were very limited) used those glass tubes and were big and bulky. A simple radio used to be the size of an easy chair.

[qnr]

7. Why of *course* it was a cell phone, everyone knows that the 1928 landscape was simply

studded with cellular towers.

[Egnever]

18. Cause a time traveler would rely on cell towers

for a signal right?

[qnr]

19. For a "cell phone," yes... It wasn't stated that it was some unknown technology. n/t

[qnr]

8. self-delete - dupe due to network hicough n/t

studded with cellular towers.

[sufrommich]

9. Wouldn't there need to be cell towers also? nt

[LostInAnomie]

10. I think the person is supposed to gesturing that they are thinking.

[Junkdrawer]

11. That's no lady, it's an early Dr. Who. n/t

[Matariki]

13. !!!

:rofl:

I'm in the middle of watching an episode with the first Doctor, where it's the first time the Daleks are on earth. Have you seen episodes with the first Doctor? They're actually kind of arty, in a 60's sort of way.

[Junkdrawer]

15. Did the same last year. I got BBC America on my cable and wanted the Dr. Who backstory....

Cool theme music.

[Poll_Blind]

14. I HAVE MY CONGRESSMAN ON THE PHONE RIGHT FUCKING NOW- but what do I tell them?!

PB

[Uben]

16. "Start voting for the people instead of against them"

Good luck with that. Politicians will say anything...ANYTHING....to appease you and get your vote. It's what they do.

[mkultra]

17. looked like she was holding her hat in place

[datasuspect]

20. except her fingers aren't curled around the hat

plus where the frame wipes, they are smiling and talking.

[mkultra]

21. yeah, its like shes holding something in her hand

while she is also holding her hat on and talking to someone.

[Junkdrawer]

22. Pince-nez glasses?

[qnr]

23. To me, it looks more like the person is scratching an itch. n/t

[NoPasaran]

24. In the 1980s, a cell phone was the size of a brick

Logically, in 1928 a cell phone would have been the size of a refrigerator.

[backscatter712]

25. Hell, the transistor hadn't even been invented yet.

So a radio was at minimum the size of a modern microwave oven.

A cell phone as we know it today would have been nearly impossible in 1928 - we're talking about a device that's actually a PC with a radio that has software that makes it pretend to be a telephone. The computer hadn't been invented yet, and even if it did, something with the computing power of a calculator would have filled a gymnasium.

[Dash87]

26. It could be a hearing aid, or something like that.

:)

♥

[superduperfarleft]

27. It doesn't need to be "debunked." People didn't have cellphones in 1928. n/t

[stevedeshazer]

28. Riiight.

[laconicsax]

30. zOMG!

CALL CONGRESS!!! RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

31. Um... maybe an ear trumpet?

An arthritic woman shielding her eyes from the sun?

Toothache?

Earing slipping off?

The internet is wonderful...

[Codeine]

32. Fucking stupid shit, and I'm stupid for clicking on it. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

33. She's a time traveler, and she's talking to the "Star Folks Lunar Colony"

She wants to give all the indigo children there advance warning about the brutish moon bombing of 2009.

[Generic Brad]

34. There's a woman in my neighborhood who does that all day

She wanders around St Paul all day having non-stop conversations with a non-existent person on the other end of a non-existent cell phone. This film proves nothing to me.

[NoGOPZone]

35. That woman is still waiting for Tracfone customer service to answer nt