Cellphone-Wielding Time Traveler Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film
I’ve been engaged in a hot debate over the last hour with a friend of mine over just what this is. Seems like Irish filmmaker George Clarke has discovered a time traveler in footage from the 1928 premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus. In the scene, the alleged time traveler walks across the screen, clearly speaking into… well, who knows? In 1928, there certainly weren’t any eletronic devices that portable, much less ones designed specifically for communication. It’s hard to believe, but after seeing the footage, it’s hard to believe anything else. Check out George’s video, and weigh in. What on Earth is going on here? Cellular phone? Star Trekian communicator? Something else?
Jacqualine, I’m sure cell phone technology will improve along with our time travel technology.
SO let’s entertain the idea that it is in fact a time-traveling cross-dressing chap with a cel phone. Who would he be talking to? What kind of service do you think they ‘d get in 1920? Of course someone with the technology to time travel would probably have a pretty ballin’ cel phone.
If it were a time traveler who would she be talking to? Even if she had friends from the future with her, there were no cell phone towers in 20s.
Simply a time traveler.
A simple explanation is more likely to be true than something as wild as time travel. The simplest explanation for the film is not that a person with a mobile phone traveled back in time to be captured in some footage at the premiere of a Charlie Chaplin film. The simplest explanation is that here you have a woman holding some unknown device from the early 20th century to her head while she walks and talks. So what might the device be? She is an older woman, so my guess is that it’s an early hearing aid. And we’re assuming she’s “talking into” the device. But why? Because what’s she’s doing reminds us of something distinctly modern: walking while talking into a cellphone. She may be walking down the street singing to herself, while pressing the hearing aid to her head. Any of those explanations are simpler and more plausible than the time-traveler theory.