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Posted on 10/30/2010 12:00:01 PM PDT by rxsid
"Vintage film shows woman holding what?
Filmmaker says he's 'stumped' by image he calls 1928 cell phone
Shades of the flux capacitor.
Millions of people have watched a video by a Belfast filmmaker who thinks he has discovered a "time traveler" walking and talking on a cell phone in behind-the-scenes footage of the 1928 opening of a Charlie Chaplin film.
"I was kind of stumped by what I saw," George Clarke says in his YouTube video, "I kept winding it back … and I couldn't explain this. Nobody can give me an explanation as to what it is."
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y6a4T2tJaSU
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He said the film appears to show a "thin black device that is held to your ear." He said the knuckles are "bent in the flat shape of a phone.""
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Did they have transistor radios back then?
“hearing aid’
It certainly appeared that way to me.
re Fixing a comb in her hair...under the hat?
As others have stated, it's almost certainly an early listening device, and "who" she is talking to, is actually herself...explained with what you note was that she suffered from dementia and constantly talked to herself.
Maybe, she was "hearing" herself talk! haha.
That is not a “woman”. Man feet, man hands, a very angular and masculine face. “Time traveler”? Physics does not disallow such things. Anyway, could be some sort of walkie-talkie. At the end, the figure seemed surprised by being filmed.
FDR wasn’t elected for five more years so she’s not listening to him. Maybe its a crystal set of some sort and she is singing along with the music? Maybe its a hearing aid? maybe she got hit on the side of the head and its an ice bag?
Again? It’s a frickin’ hearing aid.
Oh, jeez, it is a “cellphone”, except they were not called “cellphones” at the time.
It's not a radio ~ it's simply a hearing aid. Look up Hearing Aid History and look at Images.
Clue, the standardized small battery had already hit the market. The telephone had been in place for decades. There's nothing in a hearing aid that had not yet been invented.
An alternative is that it could have been a wire recorder placed in a custom built handcase.
Way too early in time to be a transistor radio (circa early 1950’s technology). I thought it could be some early miniature music box but hearing aid seems more plausible. Perhaps there was music playing in the streets or she could have been just singing in her head. Possibly a bit of a nutty old woman—it happens!
sea shell
That device is not wireless, nor is it square and small. The Siemens device looks more like a round singular headset headphone, connected by wire to a large purse.
Of course, if time travel is happening today, wouldn’t Siemens be a prime candidate for having access to developing that technology? Hence they could covering their tracks is just so many parallel universes and who would be the wiser.
It is very interesting, could she have just been crazy?
Did you see her hat?
Maybe it's not really a hat, but a time travel helmet from the year 2315, after the interplanetary conference gave them out as souvenirs.
The transistor wasn't invented until 1947.
C’mon, 2315 time travel devices were much smaller devices than a hat. Besides, just think of the history of the cell phone. Even the black Razors have been relatively short lived. If it were a communication device and time travel involved, it is probably something different than our cell phones today.
Notice how she fades away when she looks at the camera, as if somebody is fading out the scene into another, to cover up the evidence, so THEY won’t catch it?
But now that we know, why aren’t THEY returning to keep it out of the movie, so we don’t find out about it???? /s <;^)
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