Cell phone time traveler from 1928?

Is a woman in a 1928 film who appears to have a cell phone glued to her ear in fact a time traveler? That's what some conspiracy theorists think this eerie scene (video below) from Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film, "The Circus" is telegraphing, or rather phoning, and that the woman -- who looks about as time-traveler-ish as Martha Stewart, is indeed a voyager from the vortex of time and space.
Grimmsays...

Who is she talking to? Other time travelers of course. Come on man...this is future stuff...in the future you don't need no stinking cell towers...your cell phone IS the cell tower. >> ^TheFreak:

So...who's she talking to on a cell phone in 1928? Were there a lot of cell towers around back then?

Sagemindsays...

Good point, a hand-held radio is likely a good assumption but not possible.

Bell Laboratories demonstrated the first transistor on December 23, 1947.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio

Regency TR-1 — the first transistor radio (circa 1954)
http://people.msoe.edu/~reyer/regency/

This clip was filmed in 1928! (according to the post.)
So the next thing to ask would be, "Is the footage authentic?"



>> ^Edgeman2112:

Could it be a handheld radio and she be hard of hearing?

kymbossays...

"Hello? Yes it's... you'll have to speak up, I've got terrible coverage here. Where am I? Oh, I'm in the past. Yeah, reception is just terrible. Honestly, how did people ever get anything do.. Oh she's dropped out again!"

Darkhandsays...

Okay guys I'm not investing my chips into this one way or another but I just wanted to say that if we did somehow create time travel in the future, wouldn't it also be conceivable that we somehow figured out a communication device that let you send messages in a similar fashion?

I mean why is it so hard to believe omg TIME TRAVEL we can send people through time! But we can't send a phonecall?

I can call someone in China right now and I don't have to be there.

Anyway that's all I'm saying.

ctrlaltbleachsays...

She clearly looks as though shes holding something up to her ear. Why would she need to shield her eyes? The hat seems to be doing that just fine. Whats really strange is how she stops to say something which is all to familiar to us in the present who see people talk on cell phones everyday. But most likely the director stopped her and yelled " Hey lady what the hell are you doing?" then decided to cut the whole scene anyway.

alizarinsays...

This is a set, that's not sunlight but a spotlight. She's covering her eyes and talking to someone off camera. Bad take that was used. That's my occam's razor theory.

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