Is this the world's first cell phone? Film from 1938 shows a woman talking on a wireless device

Mailonline ^ | 3/31/2014 | Mailonline

[Dallas59]

The mystery of how a woman could have been filmed while using a modern cell phone back in 1938 seems to have finally been solved.

Black and white footage of a young female chatting into a wireless handset - said to have been filmed at a factory in the United States in the 30s - has attracted over 300,000 plays on YouTube.

[Dallas59]

Might be talking to Eva.

[LostInBayport]

Hitler?

I believe you're right. Didn't he run a vote-buying program, giving free Hitlerphones to "the poor", funded with taxpayer dollars?

[babygene]

“Walkie-Talkies were around then, I’m pretty sure, probably used in the military. The poor mans’ cell phone is still sold today.”

No, in 1939 the transistor had not been invented yet. There were crude military transceivers but they had vacuum tubes in them and huge batteries. Hardly a Walkie-Talkie.

[Sacajaweau]

This is what I think before reading on...just my observation.

If you look at the lady in front of her, she is holding a similar sized object...probably a small purse.

Then look at everyone else...It's not bothering them a bit. She may just have an itch.

[Jane Long]

LOL!!

But, wait....time travelers are real....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9DwwsCSb0

[Sacajaweau]

I just wrote exactly what you wrote. It’s called observation.

[jjotto]

Here’s another time traveler:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3076993/posts

[Ditter]

About that same time (1980) we had a mobile phone in our Suburban but you could’t take it out of the truck. I remember thinking how amazing that was.

[umgud]

Geez, it coulda been a transister radio or a walkie talkie or an electric razor.....

[dirtboy]

Any fool knows that isn’t a cell phone, it’s a shoe phone.

[ArtDodger]

How about : ice in a hand towel for a swelling from a bee sting?

[jjotto]

It wasn’t the first cell phone. That was 1928:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6RjpD1vwh8

[txhurl]

I have a hard time believing women cut their hair that way back then, let alone what was in their purse.

[ArtDodger]

Her eye looks swollen. I think it is ice in a towel.

[publius911]

It wasn’t the first cell phone. That was 1928:

You can't have a cell phone without cells and corresponding cell towers.

Whatever that device in her hand is, a cell phone it ain't.

[mikrofon]

Not to mention all his U-Toob rants ....

[jjotto]

hehe

[txhurl]

Odd eye-teeth. Pack of Vampire Lesbians? What’s with the flanking guard?

[wideawake]

Transistors weren’t available until after WWII.

[US_MilitaryRules]

And the girl in the first photo, second from the right is texting! OMG!!!!!!