Mysterious 'Time Traveler' Spotted in Charlie Chaplin Film

http://www.fox43.com/entertainment/ktla-charlie-chaplin-time-travel-youtube,0,6496692.story ^ | fishtank

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HOLLYWOOD -- 33 years after his death, a 1928 film clip from a Charlie Chaplin movie premier that appears to show a woman talking on a cell phone is sparking debate and controversy.

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[A CA Guy]

In Chaplan’s time, where would be the infrastructure to carry that wireless call?

[Hot Tabasco]

Mysterious 'Time Traveler' Spotted

They're everywhere now......

Notice the guy on the left......

And here, the guy once again in the background with the hat.

I'm glad you brought this up, these appearances are getting down right creepy........something's going on I tell ya!

[ThomasThomas]

It is a message to the grandmother who had raised her to let her know that she was doing well and that she loved her.

[HereInTheHeartland]

She is on the phone with Warren Buffet getting info to place a trade. Do people really think he is that smart, or does he just have some other means of making money?

[fr_freak]

Watching the video at the link is much more informative. There probably is a natural explanation for what the person is doing, but if you watch the video, it looks every bit like he/she is talking on a communication device the size of a cellphone.

Now, as I said, there probably is a natural explanation for this, but the dismissals of this fun little mystery are illogical. Let's assume, for a moment, that it is some sort of communication device:

1) The news guys call it a cellphone, but that doesn't mean it actually is a cellphone. That is merely the most analogous thing we have in 2010 to explain what the person is doing. Frankly, if it were a time traveler, he/she would have technology beyond even 2010, which makes it unlikely that he/she would be using a cellphone modeled on 2010 technology, which requires cell phone towers, satellites, etc.

2) If you watch the video, the person is not holding onto his/her hat, eyeglasses, covering the face, etc. It is quite clear that the person is holding an object roughly the size of a large cellphone (think 1990s) up to his face, and does appear to be talking, but that is not quite clear. The movement of the person is exactly that of a person talking on a cellphone (or some other communication device). That is probably why it jumped out at the guy - the way the head is oriented in a single direction as when one is focused on the voice in the phone rather than the world around, and the steady shuffling walk.

3) As for why this person would be dressed in the fashion of the 1920s, why wouldn't he be? If you were going to travel back in time and blend in, wouldn't you wear 1920s clothes? To do otherwise would be silly.

[earlJam]

But can the cell phone lady do the past AND the future?

[Tuxedo]

soon as I saw this article, I just knew Tourist Guy would show up!

[Doc Savage]

An advanced civilization wouldn't need towers. It could have be similar to sat. phones, or any type of communications device. The stranger questions are: Why her, why then, why there, why use such a device in public. Doesn't make any sense.

Perhaps some guy had the idea of people being able to communicate in such a manner long before it was ever realized and staged the shot. Yet it is so arcane and out of place, and so minute that to even fake such a thing for some obscure idea is ridiculous.

I will say he/she (and it's clearly dressed as a dumpy, obese, elderly female wearing size 14 shoes) does in deed seem to be talking and talking INTO some device which is clearly being held up to her ear for convenience. Very bizarre.

[bgill]

A cigarette case would be about the right size. I’ve heard of blowing smoke out your backside but not your ear, so it still makes no sense.

[Doc Savage]

Mountaineering glasses. I have a pair. So did Sir Edmund in the 50’s. Not to strange.

[sefarkas]

Can you imagine what her late fees are by now?

... on top of her roaming charges. Standard orbit has got to be on someone else's system.

[earlJam]

if it were a time traveler, he/she would have technology beyond even 2010, which makes it unlikely that he/she would be using a cellphone modeled on 2010 technology, which requires cell phone towers, satellites, etc.

KRAMER: You know, in the year two-thousand, we'll all be on speed-dial. You'll just have to think of a person, they'll be talking to you. It'll be like, wup ..... getting a call here.

KRAMER: (to Jerry and George) Hey, it's Newman. Hey, how you doing, Newman?

Jerry begins mouthing 'I'm not here'

[Doc Savage]

It wouldn’t have been Chaplin’s time! No tower needed. Advanced civilzation you see.

[MrEdd]

I was expecting looter guy and the islamic wailing widow.

[B Knotts]

Finally, the explanation for Obama’s election!

I knew something seemed off...Howard Dean went back in time and caused some change in the space-time continuum!

[fishtank]

Proof.

Deny this.

I dare you.

:-)

P.S. let's learn to have some fun in life!!!

[muawiyah]

It's a hearing aid. Probably manufactured between 1905 and 1910, or maybe it's a custom made device ~ it's got a small pick up, a small speaker, a battery, and a very simple amplification circuit. Oh, yeah, and some switches.

You aim it at what you want to hear, the sound is amplified, and you listen at the other end.

Watch what the lady does as she looks over to the camera. She swings her hearing aid around to catch the sound ~ maybe someone yelling at her "Get out the way lady we're filming here".

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe it was a Progresso can. They had string.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Has the “Fringe” Investigative group been broought in yet? This sounds like a job for Dr. Walter Bishop and group.

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