[rxsid]

A "recording" device? Perhaps nothing? Strange how she appears to be holding something up to her ear and appears to be talking as well.

[rxsid]

Way off "topic", Ping. Kinda strange but interesting. Any ideas?

Vintage film shows woman holding what? [1928 cell phone?]

[Blogger]

I don’t think it is nothing. Her fingers are bent to where there is undoubtedly something there. I don’t think she is a time traveller. But what in the world it is, I don’t know.

[dfwgator]

Maybe she was using it to listen to FDR’s Fireside Chats.

[Blogger]

Could be something like this. Why she would be holding the square part up to her ear, who knows...
http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/20thcent/index.htm

[GeronL]

Is it a real film though??

[CreviceTool]

Freeze the frame on a large monitor and you can clearly see that it is Helen Thomas.

[Tribune7]

This is definitely proof of time travel. You know this because it’s on the internet. And if it’s on the internet it must be true!!!!!

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

This has been going around for a few days now. Someone in another thread posted a photo of what it was, a very early model of electric hearing aid.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

If it’s a time traveler with a cell phone, I’d imagine service would be pretty spotty in 1928... Can you imagine the roaming charges alone?:)

[trisham]

It is pretty neat.

[JOAT]

Rense ping

[FrankR]

There was nothing, electronic, in 1928 that was THAT small...so it was not a radio, or a recorder, or a walkman.

The Belfast filmmaker (there's your first clue, filmmakers need publicity to sell their wares) never explains that even if it WAS a "time traveler" on a "cell phone"....WHAT IS HE USING FOR A CELL TOWER? I don't think they had any of those in 1928 either.

I ain't buyin' it...maybe the guy had an earache.

[DanielRedfoot]

Art Bell, please call your office....

[SunTzuWu]

Siemens hearing aid from 1924. Nothing supernatural about it.

http://hearing.siemens.com/sg/10-about-us/01-our-history/milestones.jsp?year=1924

[FreedomPoster]

Early hearing aid. Hashed out on another thread. I think muawiyah was the first one with the answer, and someone else chimed in with a link to contemporaneous similar device.

Here’s the thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2615864/posts?q=1&;page=51

[texmexis best]

It is probably an early electronic hearing aid or an early radio.

[kimmie7]

From the comments on youtube: Apparently the womans name was audrey manningham, she was 62 when this film was shot, she suffered from dementia and constantly talked to herself,, she was re fixing a comb she had in her hair at the time, the man who walks in front of her was George Manningham her husband.

[kaehurowing]

The phone connects to the one you can see on the wall in “Alien Autopsy.”

[A CA Guy]

Could be a cold compress to the head or a time traveler trying to figure why there are no signals without towers.

[A CA Guy]

Could be a cold compress to the head or a time traveler trying to figure why there are no signals without towers.