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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“Can you hear me yet?”
Whomever moved the film version to the digital version put together a ‘trick or treat’ by super imposing the guy wearing old woman garb. It is a good piece of work though. Look at the movement of the shadow! That is a frame-by-frame scam, then run in super impose mode. Excellent work to create this little addition and include it in the digital package. We get this sort of stuff at MUFON and it is really tough to catch some of these scams.
It's an assumption based upon the forward-travel limitations.
I've never gone and looked.
I don't want to know that much.
So how’s Montana Wildhack this week?
Indeed. Occam's Razor.
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Aging ungracefully but plays a wicked game of Scrabble.
Won't eat salty snacks but denies there is any salt in Doritos.
Why?
Mmmm... Doritos.
Just wondering.
That was my favorite movie for a long time, and Valerie Perrine was great in it.
"Doctor, come pick me up NOW!"
I have ample space. I just don't have time.
I wonder how close she was from the cell tower? /s (ack)
That’s why Admin from The Agency aren’t allowed to time jump.
My first thought.
She’s talking on a banana.
OK, thanks!
Its not a cell phone - its a UFP Star Fleet communicator. I thought that would be perfectly obvious...
has anyone considered that
#1) that isn’t a woman, it is a man
#2) it was a crowd, in hollywood, at a time when filming was a much more expensive thing. it is possible that the opening was being used to film a crowd scene for a different movie. or maybe this one “character” was put in place when it was certain there would be filming, this would save money in hiring a crowd for the location at another time.
The 20s were the height of “on location” filming. Silent films used a lot of location shots because there was no need for sound.
Watch some Harold Lloyd movies. They were doing stunts on the tops of actual Los Angeles buildings. Cecil Be DeMille’s silent epics were far more interesting than his later films.
Another great silent film is the 1925 version of Ben Hur, which was made on location in Italy with a budget of more than $5 million in 1925 dollars.
Sound production set movie making back 15 years. They went from massive spectacle and real locations to static scenes filmed on sets.
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