Charlie Chaplin Time-Traveler … Really??? Charlie Chaplin has a cell phone time-traveler in his movie. Or does he? The movie was called “The Circus”, and was made in 1928. In the film, you can see a person walking in the background with the body language of a person holding a cell phone.
What we envision a person making a cell phone call looks like is truly what the gentleman does look like. However, there is no basis to this theory. The film clip has gone viral, with many people saying that there was a time-traveler who visited the Charlie Chaplin movie set.
Speculation about a supposed time traveler talking on her cell phone at a 1928 Hollywood film premiere has sped across the Internet faster than a DeLorean time machine. But a less mind-bending possibility is that she was just hard of hearing, experts say.
The story first surfaced in a YouTube video that includes film footage showing the 1928 premiere of the Charlie Chaplin film “The Circus” at Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Irish filmmaker George Clarke points out a woman in the old footage holding what he describes as a cell phone against her ear. The shape implies the woman is a time traveler using a modern mobile device rather than an ear trumpet, Clarke said.
What Clarke didn’t consider was that a simple ear trumpet could still explain it all, said hearing device historians, who provided LiveScience with images of sample ear trumpets for comparison.
“As you can tell from these, old-fashioned mechanical or resonating hearing aids were not necessarily long and rounded,” said Philip Skroska, an archivist at the Bernard Becker Medical Library of Washington University in St. Louis. “Short, compact rectangular forms were not unusual.”
Traveling through time is theoretical. It has never been proved, in any meaningful sense, to be possible. So far, the leading idea is that a “wormhole” would have to be tunneled from one point in space and time to another. It works fine on paper but hasn’t been proven. Assuming that time travel is possible, how is a cellular phone supposed to work in 1928? There wasn’t even FM radio yet.
Nineteen-century resonator hearing aids such as ear trumpets were still made in large numbers well into the first decades of the 20th century, Skroska explained, and the basic designs didn’t change much aside from incorporating newer, plastic-like materials.
This explanation might be less exciting than the time travel theory, but it avoids a huge number of theoretical and practical problems associated with sending someone into the past.
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Well, we know it’s not an iphone, since they would have dropped the call holding it like that. Oh, and where would the celltower be?
This video is SOO easy to explain.
First, the lady is holding a hand wallet…a small formal purse…my grandmother had several of these 4×8 formal little hand bags.
Second, watch the video….she’s obviously henpecking and chewing out her husband…the man who storms through the scene ahead of her. He rushes through the scene angry and determined. She, being aware of the camera across the street, holds her handbag up to hide her face as she is chewing his butt out while following behind him. She is obviously angry at him as evidenced by how agressively she is clutching her wallet…and the fact she won’t stop yelling at him.
Marital bliss…circa 1928…
…Not one of Doctor Who’s most attractive regenerations…