Posted on 10/27/2010 2:22:23 PM PDT by fishtank
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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more at link
LOL!
Thanks for the link. That makes more sense than time travel. But it’s not as fun. And those feet! Looks surprisingly like Helen Thomas, when Helen was much younger.
With the phone came all the makings for most of a hearing aid. There was a pickup microphone and a speaker. It was all 12 or 24 volt DC gear so you could put a decent paste or dry cell in the box with it for power.
All you needed was a simple amplification circuit, and you could do that "electronically" (by the time tubes came around) or "electrically" with a simple linear induction circuit ~ couple of wire coils of different sizes, one size hooked up to the speaker, another size hooked up to the microphone, and one or the other hooked up to a permanent magnet, or maybe even an electromagnet.
Just about anything would work.
I suppose you could have done this with different size cans, a good stiff cord, and a fair sized room where no one was walking around running into the cord.
This hearing aid was no more complicated than the Q-Multiplier sold to boost receptivity in a shortwave radio (way back when).
LOL! See 104. Like minds!
Oh, they SO need to write that in!!!
Here's a state of the art Acousticon Model 28 (Silver Seal Symphonic) Carbon Hearing Aid
Since the model 28 came out around Acousticon's 25th anniversary in 1928, it was also called the "Silver Seal Symphonic" or "Silver Anniversary". In honor of this, the microphone and volume control were inlaid with a fancy pattern
Yeah, but I was too lazy to put the guy in... ;0)
 Western Electric Hearing Aid 1938 |
 Acousticon Model 28, 1927 |
Or, she might simply have hurt herself AFTER arriving in the past.
First of all, she does appear to be talking into a cell phone. Secondly, the woman is not in the frame by accident. She isn't just some homeless bag lady talking to herself who happened to wander onto the movie set. That wouldn't happen. She's there by design. Whose design?
I vote for a clever bit of film editing by some bored prankster who had the tedious job of transfering celluloid films to DVD. An expert could tease this out, to see if the figure is consistent with the rest of the set.
I think a time traveler could handle the problem of ‘phone towers’... they’ll be gone in 30 years....
Can you travel in time?
That is the absolutest funniest post I have ever read on FR! I’m laughing so hard I can barely type.
Zebidahah, “Father of the iPlink”
Keep it up. You have a real talent for humor.
It’s not even a good fake. When the subject is disappearing you can see through the guy who walks in front of the horse thingy. Anybody would fall for this watched too much Dan Rather.
“It involves a portal. One side is 2010, other side is 1974.”
If it was 1976 and 2010, the time portal could be created by a giant sucking forces located in the same place — the Oval Office.
Only within my own time matrix.
That is to say, not prior to my birth or after my death.
The technology ain't perfect.
Further, there are rules imposed with which I disagree.
I can't interact with myself, for example.
My how I'd LOVE to beat some sense into 15 year old Johnny
and explain how certain choices have certain consequences.
Plus, Johnny was an ass and NEEDED an ass whoopin'.
But NO, they make us sign off on a buncha rules.. :-(
Guffaw!! That was a laugh out loud one, cripplecreek! lol
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