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Chaplin's Time Traveler

submitted by geo321

1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago

This short film is about a piece of footage I (George Clarke) found behind the scenes in Charlie Chaplins film 'The Circus'. Attending the premiere at Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA - the scene shows a large woman dressed in black with a hat hiding most of her face, with what can only be described as a mobile phone device - talking as she walks alone.

I have studied this film for over a year now - showing it to over 100 people and at a film festival, yet no-one can give any explanation as to what she is doing.

My only theory - as well as many others - is simple... a time traveler on a mobile phone. See for yourself and feel free to leave a comment on your own explanation or thoughts about it.
(YT description)

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Clearly, a time traveler is the only explanation. <-- sarcasm

Just because it hasn't been posted yet, 50,000 people spending 3 mins on Youtube beats 100 people spending 1 hour.

"It was a hearing aid device native to the 1920's.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23909185@N06/5108888518/"

Moving this video to geo321's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

What I love about this mystery is that no one seems to mention that cell phones don't work independently of an entire network of infrastructure that surrounds them. Try making a cell phone call without towers to broadcast and receive the signal.

The only exception to this would be with a satellite phone, and last I checked, that takes a friggin satellite.

Some of the Youtube comments on this are just funny. There were no radios in 1928? WTF?

It's most likely to be a small crystal radio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio) with fixed tuning. Needs no power source, and outputs at a very low volume, so you need to hold it to your ear. Very common in the 1920s, also very easy to build. I made one when I was a kid using an electronics starter kit.
And her mouth is moving because she's probably singing along to the song she's hearing.

dystopianfuturetoday

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

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