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Cuchulainn
10-28-2010, 07:27 PM
This is a clip from a Charlie Chaplin movie from 1929. There is a woman clearly on a mobile phone.

YouTube - Charlie Chaplin's time traveler (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3qesTjOE8&feature=player_embedded)

Discuss.

escobert
10-28-2010, 07:32 PM
My friend was just here like an hour ago talking about this!

Psychotic
10-28-2010, 08:19 PM
That's a freakin' sweet zebra.

Crop
10-28-2010, 08:30 PM
There is a woman clearly on a mobile phone.


I think that's up for debate.

Just an odd angle. The woman could have been saying anything at any volume. Possibly even talking to the cameraman and hiding her face, because she thought it might suck out her soul.

Madame Adequate
10-28-2010, 08:36 PM
I think you finding this debatable is debatable Crop!

Cuchulainn
10-28-2010, 08:42 PM
There is a woman clearly on a mobile phone.


I think that's up for debate.

Just an odd angle. The woman could have been saying anything at any volume. Possibly even talking to the cameraman and hiding her face, because she thought it might suck out her soul.

Except you can see something in her hand. I was, of course being facicious, I'm pretty sure it's not The Doctor. It's just a good bit of accidental intrigue.

Pheesh
10-28-2010, 08:50 PM
Not only is that not a mobile phone...I don't even think that's a real woman.

Roto13
10-28-2010, 08:54 PM
It's not even clear if that's a woman.

Agent Proto
10-28-2010, 09:00 PM
Hey guys, it's really the Penguin! He time traveled to the past to "photobomb" this film!

Depression Moon
10-28-2010, 09:08 PM
I can't really tell what that is in his/her hand or if there is anything there. Even if it was a mobile phone, who the hell are you going to call with it back in 1929?

NorthernChaosGod
10-28-2010, 09:10 PM
I can't really tell what that is in his/her hand or if there is anything there. Even if it was a mobile phone, who the hell are you going to call with it back in 1929?

Aliens?

escobert
10-28-2010, 09:29 PM
If it's not a phone then what would a woman/man in the 20's be holding that was that small and black? It looks as if she's talking to it :p

Pheesh
10-28-2010, 09:32 PM
I think she's trying not to look at that zebra.

Depression Moon
10-28-2010, 09:33 PM
I can't really tell what that is in his/her hand or if there is anything there. Even if it was a mobile phone, who the hell are you going to call with it back in 1929?

Aliens?

Wouldn't that require satellites which didn't exist back then?

Old Manus
10-28-2010, 10:05 PM
Nah, this is just present-day south Wales.

Shlup
10-28-2010, 10:26 PM
I was just hearing about this on the radio. They were saying how, in the future, people will time travel for vacation.

I'm just mad that I'll probably be dead by then. Don't be dicks, time travelers, share your technologies with the past.

Bunny
10-28-2010, 10:45 PM
I can't really tell what that is in his/her hand or if there is anything there. Even if it was a mobile phone, who the hell are you going to call with it back in 1929?

"Hello? The Future? This is 1929 calling. WAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUPPPPP"

NorthernChaosGod
10-28-2010, 10:50 PM
I can't really tell what that is in his/her hand or if there is anything there. Even if it was a mobile phone, who the hell are you going to call with it back in 1929?

"Hello? The Future? This is 1929 calling. WAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUPPPPP"

Oh, God. Not that again. :|

Bunny
10-28-2010, 11:08 PM
Gotta remember, this is 1929 we're talking about. They invented that :bou::bou::bou::bou:.

Shoeberto
10-28-2010, 11:18 PM
I was just hearing about this on the radio. They were saying how, in the future, people will time travel for vacation.

I'm just mad that I'll probably be dead by then. Don't be dicks, time travelers, share your technologies with the past.
My Halloween costume for the party last weekend was "rogue time traveler whose time machine is powered by alcohol and he just really wants to go home again."

Shiny
10-28-2010, 11:51 PM
It's not clear enough to tell what is was she was holding. Alsoooo, if I really wanted to superimpose my body over an old Charlie Chaplin film, I could and so could someone else. But I don't think that's what happened here. Just someone holding something. A dildo, perhaps?

Agrias
10-28-2010, 11:53 PM
Its obviously a eunuch from the future.

Clo
10-29-2010, 12:01 AM
I want to know who is staring so intently at the background of Charlie Chaplin movies.

Depression Moon
10-29-2010, 12:04 AM
Nah, this is just present-day south Wales.

Hmm, a cover up?

Old Manus is the time traveler, get him!

Rebellious Eagle
10-29-2010, 12:14 AM
I just wrote a news story about this for my school radio. I personally think she's maybe just holding something besides a cell phone, or covering her face from the cameras. I mean, time traveling, really? Don't think so. Dx

blackmage_nuke
10-29-2010, 01:37 AM
You seem rather sceptical for someone with an avatar of Haruhi

Also It looks like she is acting like she's lost by scratching her head but is just a bad actor at it

Yar
10-29-2010, 01:43 AM
I was just hearing about this on the radio. They were saying how, in the future, people will time travel for vacation.

I'm just mad that I'll probably be dead by then. Don't be dicks, time travelers, share your technologies with the past.

Why the hell would you time travel to 1929 for a vacation?

Anyway, how can this cell phone work if it was used in 1929? hmmm?

NorthernChaosGod
10-29-2010, 02:06 AM
I was just hearing about this on the radio. They were saying how, in the future, people will time travel for vacation.

I'm just mad that I'll probably be dead by then. Don't be dicks, time travelers, share your technologies with the past.

Why the hell would you time travel to 1929 for a vacation?

Anyway, how can this cell phone work if it was used in 1929? hmmm?
It's the future!

Bastian
10-29-2010, 02:25 AM
One of the comments on the YouTube page says that the commenter has seen the full clip and just prior to that bit someone slaps her, which is why she's holding something up to her face and is yelling obscenities.

Cuchulainn
10-29-2010, 03:26 AM
This is NOT from the movie itself. No one slapped her either. It's a news reel pan shot of the Premier of the movie. There is no acting involved as it's not a scene. Good grief, the sceptical stories about this are as fabricated as the insane time travel ones.

I've no idea what she's doing but I can pretty much tell you that

1. It's not a time traveller.

2. She is not acting

3. It's not a mobile phone

4. She was not slapped.

Ok. Back to reality.

http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/files/2010/10/cellphone1928.jpg

He/She is clearly holding something. The shape of the hand with fingers bend in is not a position of rubbing the face. She/He is definately talking. It is definately 1928.

Beyond that who the smurf knows.

Rodarian
10-29-2010, 07:47 AM
Its Verizon connect advert...."Can you hear me.....Good...."

Verizon, no distance, or time will disrupt your signal....




Seriously though it can be a lot of things..Although it does seems as if she's talking into something... Like sea shell....She could be a nutter bag too..

NorthernChaosGod
10-29-2010, 09:56 PM
She's clearly a time traveler with a line to her family in the future. Duh.

Yar
10-30-2010, 03:41 AM
Was she cock slapped, Cuch? Maybe thats why her hand and her mobile phone are next to her time-traveling face

TheGlassesGirl
10-30-2010, 04:12 AM
Meh, I saw the clip. I really don't think it's a cell phone, I think it's an ear trumpet. I know the guy in the original video said it's NOT an ear trumpet, but how the hell would he know it is or not?


I can't really tell what that is in his/her hand or if there is anything there. Even if it was a mobile phone, who the hell are you going to call with it back in 1929?

I asked my mom the same question. Her response was "another time traveler." To which I replied that they still didn't have cell phone towers to call each other with.

Rodarian
10-30-2010, 12:18 PM
I asked my mom the same question. Her response was "another time traveler." To which I replied that they still didn't have cell phone towers to call each other with.

What if she was calling to her time travel ship.....

TheGlassesGirl
10-30-2010, 08:37 PM
I asked my mom the same question. Her response was "another time traveler." To which I replied that they still didn't have cell phone towers to call each other with.

What if she was calling to her time travel ship.....
:cool: How would the ship be powered in 1929?

Bunny
10-30-2010, 09:20 PM
Everything in the future is solar-powered.

NorthernChaosGod
10-30-2010, 09:26 PM
I asked my mom the same question. Her response was "another time traveler." To which I replied that they still didn't have cell phone towers to call each other with.

What if she was calling to her time travel ship.....
:cool: How would the ship be powered in 1929?

The same way it was powered normally? It wouldn't just stop working because it's in the past. :roll2

Lone Wolf Leonhart
10-30-2010, 09:31 PM
1928 hearing aid?

http://www.roger-russell.com/sonopg/soha40a.jpg

Aerith's Knight
10-30-2010, 11:38 PM
I'm just waiting for someone to make the comment: "But if she was a time traveler, why is she in black and white?"

NorthernChaosGod
10-31-2010, 05:08 AM
I'm just waiting for someone to make the comment: "But if she was a time traveler, why is she in black and white?"

:lol:

Alive-Cat
10-31-2010, 12:38 PM
Silly, it's her pet mouse in her hand and it has a really tiny voice so she has to hold it really close to her ear to hear it's tiny voice. Obviously. :lol:

Linus
10-31-2010, 05:04 PM
This is clearly a member of Chaplin's harem. She got out of hand one night and Charlie slapped her, so she has to hold a cold compress to her face all day long.

Clo
10-31-2010, 07:32 PM
http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/files/2010/10/cellphone1928.jpg

He/She is clearly holding something. The shape of the hand with fingers bend in is not a position of rubbing the face. She/He is definately talking. It is definately 1928.

Beyond that who the smurf knows.

Clearly holding something? She could be itching her damn ear lobe for all I can deal with this blurry picture.

NorthernChaosGod
10-31-2010, 10:55 PM
http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/files/2010/10/cellphone1928.jpg

He/She is clearly holding something. The shape of the hand with fingers bend in is not a position of rubbing the face. She/He is definately talking. It is definately 1928.

Beyond that who the smurf knows.

Clearly holding something? She could be itching her damn ear lobe for all I can deal with this blurry picture.
With her entire hand? :Oo:

Agent Proto
10-31-2010, 11:40 PM
If you watched the clip, it clearly shows that she's holding onto something by her ear. So there's no scratching motion being done by the hand. :p

Depression Moon
11-01-2010, 12:13 AM
I only saw blackness in its hand.

TheGlassesGirl
11-01-2010, 01:18 AM
I'm just waiting for someone to make the comment: "But if she was a time traveler, why is she in black and white?"
ROFL

Fuzakeru
11-01-2010, 01:51 AM
I want to meet a time traveler! Maybe we can fall in love and he'll be compelled in to taking me back with him to the future and I'll have to struggle with the desire to see how things turned out for old me but this strife would lose compared to my deep desire and passion for my time traveling phantom of love!

Saw this on Geekalogie. I thought it was pretty smashing.

Rodarian
11-01-2010, 07:54 AM
1928 hearing aid?

http://www.roger-russell.com/sonopg/soha40a.jpg

This by far the most logical explanation....

Agent Proto
11-01-2010, 10:58 AM
Sorry to say this, but that particular hearing device was introduced in 1952, well past 1928. However, this one, a small ear trumpet specifically for ladies (http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Non-Electric/EarTrumpets/Short%20Trumpets/info/ladiessmalleartrumpet.htm), was around since 1920. Taking the size, shape, and color into consideration, this may have been what that lady was holding in the video.

So.... I guess Naomi was right after all. :holmes:

Lone Wolf Leonhart
11-01-2010, 12:29 PM
Sorry to say this, but that particular hearing device was introduced in 1952, well past 1928. However, this one, a small ear trumpet specifically for ladies (http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Non-Electric/EarTrumpets/Short%20Trumpets/info/ladiessmalleartrumpet.htm), was around since 1920. Taking the size, shape, and color into consideration, this may have been what that lady was holding in the video.

So.... I guess Naomi was right after all. :holmes:


Yeah, I didn't take the time to do much more than a google image search. :p

I just wanted to open the doorway to more theories besides time travel.

Cuchulainn
11-01-2010, 03:59 PM
Who was she talking to though? There was no one near the daft bint

Anyway they're saying she's usung this device;

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

DMKA
11-02-2010, 04:32 AM
This thread is making me laugh so hard my sides hurt.

I agree with the time traveler theory because it is the most appealing to me.

Renmiri
11-02-2010, 06:37 AM
Actually... We can start a fun game in this thread. Come up with what was she saying (if she was a time traveler, what would she be saying ?)

I'll start


John you ignorant s... This is 1929 not 1992.

How can I warn Clinton not to hire Monica if he has not been born yet ?

Cuchulainn
11-02-2010, 03:36 PM
"20 dollars to come on my tits, 50 dollars to come in my mouth...what? Really? ok then it's 100 to come on the zebra'

Bunny
11-02-2010, 10:01 PM
"WHY DID I COME HERE. THIS PLACE SUCKS. I'M NOT EVEN IN COLOR"

TheGlassesGirl
11-03-2010, 01:58 AM
Sorry to say this, but that particular hearing device was introduced in 1952, well past 1928. However, this one, a small ear trumpet specifically for ladies (http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Non-Electric/EarTrumpets/Short%20Trumpets/info/ladiessmalleartrumpet.htm), was around since 1920. Taking the size, shape, and color into consideration, this may have been what that lady was holding in the video.

So.... I guess Naomi was right after all. :holmes:

-+10 Ego Boost!-

:cool:

Clo
11-03-2010, 01:59 AM
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TheGlassesGirl
11-03-2010, 02:04 AM
16 Possible Explanations for the Time Traveler Caught On Film | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/blog/16-possible-explanations-time-traveler-caught-film/)

Does everyone on this site read Cracked? Because that is amazing if we do.

Rodarian
11-03-2010, 08:19 AM
"Oh heaven's sake I just heard myself fart and it didn't sound right at all..."



FYI: Cracked.com is awesome!

Melissaur
11-03-2010, 04:22 PM
epic debate peoples. Maybe a poll should be started?

Quindiana Jones
11-03-2010, 04:28 PM
The strangest part is at the end, when her fingers move slightly as if she's scratching her head. WHILST HOLDING A MOBILE PHONE, OF COURSE!

I feel I should point out that travelling back through time is literally impossible. Sorry guys. :(

Alive-Cat
11-04-2010, 06:58 PM
The strangest part is at the end, when her fingers move slightly as if she's scratching her head. WHILST HOLDING A MOBILE PHONE, OF COURSE!

I feel I should point out that travelling back through time is literally impossible. Sorry guys. :(

Nothing is impossible, especially not literally, if you follow your heart. Believe, Quin-Quin, believe, and you will discover the secrets of the universe.

NorthernChaosGod
11-04-2010, 09:52 PM
The strangest part is at the end, when her fingers move slightly as if she's scratching her head. WHILST HOLDING A MOBILE PHONE, OF COURSE!

I feel I should point out that travelling back through time is literally impossible. Sorry guys. :(

Nothing is impossible, especially not literally, if you follow your heart. Believe, Quin-Quin, believe, and you will discover the secrets of the universe.
I think it'd be impossible for a quadriplegic to dunk on Shaq.

blackmage_nuke
11-05-2010, 10:45 AM
Not with that attitude

NorthernChaosGod
11-05-2010, 06:06 PM
Or any attitude.

Bunny
11-05-2010, 08:25 PM
Science will create a machine specifically designed for quadriplegics to drunk over people of great stature. What have you done?

NorthernChaosGod
11-05-2010, 09:40 PM
Like Shaq couldn't just knock it over then. :roll2

TheGlassesGirl
11-06-2010, 04:22 AM
HEY GUYS GUESS WHAT CRACKED IS STILL RIGHT (http://www.cracked.com/article_18564_6-time-travel-realities-doc-brown-didnt-warn-us-about.html)

Dignified Pauper
11-08-2010, 02:36 PM
More importantly, this is 1929? What is a woman doing out on the streets and not in a kitchen?