George Clarke, an Irish filmmaker and avid Charlie Chaplin fan, believes he has spotted a woman in Chaplin’s The Circus (1928) walking across an otherwise normal scene using a cell phone. Clarke says that he has studied this film and the scene in particular (a DVD extra) for over a year; neither he nor “over 100” of his aquaintances have been able to provide an explanation for the woman’s actions. In the video you can clearly see our subject walking past Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with her hand to her ear and she’s talking. Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with this viral hit, and I’m sitting here trying to wrap my head around it. Mainstream news, per usual, is doing its best to find reasons against such an unruly theory as time travel. Some think that the woman is simply humming to herself and itching the side of her face. That’s a long itch!
Go on and hop after the break to watch the scene and decide for yourself. And you can add this to our ongoing collection of time travelers.
[Via Mashable]
This is fascinating and I was just typing up listening to the end of your video when you mentioned another thing that strikes me as odd.
Not only is “She” heavy footed but compare the size of her feet with the gentleman that proceeds her.
You pretty much bring up every curious aspect of this video and it is obvious you have scrutinised it carefully – I agree with all your observations and it is easy to imagine that this person knows they are being filmed and are getting a kick out of it as they stop and turn in frame.
Of course that would mean they knew exactly where to stand in advance – no problem for a time traveller!
I did of course mean precedes her. Sorry.
even if she did have a cell phone were would she get service? or wouldnt you think shed be more carefull with the things she does if she travels threw time.!
How would a cell phone work in 1928? There are no cell sites or service providers to support it.
maybe in the distant future “cell” phones won’t require cell towers to function. or maybe she was using Push-To-Talk. 🙂
or if she is an extraterrestrial taking on biologically human qualities (notice not a perfected woman human, i.e. abnormally large feet and butch body). extraterrestrials would have the technology to have functional cell phones without a service tower, or maybe the service tower is located on the spaceship they are residing in… quite fascinating stuff
It’s me, I know because when someone invents a time machine I’m going to dress up like that and pretend to talk on my cell phone in front of that camera.
My take on this is that either 1. The production company who produced the DVD made one extremely good fake to boost sales knowing that someone would find this man/woman possibly using a mobile phone and urge others to buy it and watch for yourself….plausible! 2. if and only if this was real footage, and time travel is possible (in the distant future)….would a mobile phone really be the way to communicate with someone?…technology has progressed so much in the last 30 years, that I believe that in another 100-200 years…mobile technology will be obsolete. Like many think….in 1928 the use of a mobile phone would have been impossible due to no networks ect…so push and talk would be the only solution….meaning there are other time travellers in the same period. Fake or not, it makes you think, or an extremely good stunt to boost sales of the DVD! I’m keen to hear more theories on this.
In response to Lamby… what makes you think the time travel woman is from 100-200 years in the future? She could quite possibly be only 40-50 years in the future and, therefore, mobile phones would not be obsolete. Your first point is plausible, but if they had the idea in 1928 to place a woman with a fake mobile phone, then why wouldn’t that person patent the idea of the mobile phone and become a billionaire? Sorry for debunking your theories, but next time think before you type. Cheerio.
You’re all stupid with the “service cell phone” crap, if she could obviously time travel, don’t you think she could go in the future and get advanced stuff?