Time traveler spotted?
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This is wierd...
[flash=640,360:qa87ap9p]http://www.youtube.com/v/Y6a4T2tJaSU[/flash:qa87ap9p]
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It is at face value pretty weird...
but...assuming that it is original footage and it's not some joke clipped into the 'extras' [and note that it does fit in oddly and fade from a 'zebra' to an 'elephant' ?] - then there are probably many explanations that do not require us to go as exotic as a 'time-traveler with a mobile telephone'.
For example it could be a small 'hearing-aid' that is she holding to her ear. A non-electric small 'trumpet type, or a small microphone/speaker devices with batteries were around even then - they did have normal 'telephones' after all. In 1899 Miller Reese Hutchison and J. Wilson established the Akouphone Company in Alabama. Miller Reese Hutchison held the patent for the first practical electric hearing aid which employed a carbon microphone or transmitter and a battery. The company manufactured the Akoulallion which sat on a table with three pairs of earphones attached. It retailed for $400. A smaller version with portable battery was sold in 1900 for $60. Electronic Hearing Aids - based on 'Carbon' (1899-1940s) and the telephone principle appeared first in limited quantities in a table model about 1899, but by 1902 it was in a wearable and practical instruments; these Carbon aids were popular up until the 1940's. Most of these used a rather large 3 or 6-volt battery, but did not have enough power to assist those with more than a moderate hearing loss. Electronic Hearing Aids are unlikely - using a Vacuum Tube (1920s-1930s) were unlike the carbon instruments, these had adequate power for severe hearing losses but were also usable by persons with a lesser loss: the first one appeared in 1921, but this type did not become very practical until the early 1930's, and did not appear in a 'wearable version' until ~1936 and even then the batteries were very expensive.
Small battery-free crystal-powered cat's-whisker radio receivers had also been available for some years and by 1928 were a 'hobbyist' item and such a small one would have been possible, with it needing an ear-piece as the sound output would have been too poor otherwise.
She does not need to be speaking to someone else - she could just be mumbling to herself - remember that people walking down the street holding there head and talking to themselves were not uncommon long before mobile phones - but back then they were just 'nut-cases' and not inconsiderate teenagers or business men impelled to tell someone that they are 'on the train'...
We don't know what the background noise was like in the shot, so perhaps there was music playing and she is singing along to it - pleased to hear it with her new fangled hearing-aid gizmo...
Or perhaps she has an 'earache' in her left ear and so she is holding a piece of folded cloth containing something warm to her ear to keep it soothed.
I also realize that she also looks like a man... but then there were [and still are] some quite unfeminine and downright ugly women about - check it next time when you haven't had as many beers as your pals who have 'pulled'!
If this were a time traveler then she could not be talking on a 'mobile phone' as there was not the transmitter network etc back then - but admittedly it could be a 'walkie-talkie-radio' of some sort that would still be out of place time-wise. If she were talking into a device then it then leads us to conclude that there needs to be at least one other person hearing her on a similar device.
But let's ask ourselves, why would two or more people travel back in time - at what will be undoubtedly vast expense if it every does get to work - to simply walk across a movie trailer and possibly be rumbled using an out-of-time devices...Occam's Razor says don't over complicate things more than they need to be.
There are many explanations simpler than a time-traveling transvestite using a mobile-phone who just happens to walk into a shot of a Chaplin film... we just need to think of them.
You could come up with many more way-out theories that are as exotic as the 'time-travel' one that are equally as infeasible - for example - she's an alien communicating with her mother-ship, she's actually Charlie Chaplin himself dressed up for an 'in-joke' during the filming and he holds his hand to the side of his face to conceal his identity from the camera, it is J Edgar Hoover in disguise and he is trailing the man who first walks across the scene, etc etc -
I'll admit it is rather weird.
But why would a time traveler have anything remotely similar to a mobile phone for communicating?
We're certainly not very close to a workable time machine now...so by the time we'll have, if ever, communication devices could be fully integrated into the body or in clothes especially for time traveling. Why risk contaminating the past?
And even if someone from today would plan a mission to the past, there are plenty of technologies which are small enough to be hidden in clothing...I think it is much more likely that she is holding a bakelite ear piece, like the one below, and talking or shouting to some one off camera.
http://www.phisick.com/a7et33.htm
If we had seen this 30, 20 years ago our first though wouldn't have been mobile phones.
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You'd think people from the future would be in better shape.
Also, if you watch the last frames, it looks to me like the fingers move in a manner consistent with an empty hand.
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@escapeartist said:
Also, if you watch the last frames, it looks to me like the fingers move in a manner consistent with an empty hand.
Exactly what i thought..
This guy only wants some free advertise..
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it's not a phone... it's a micro recorder and she's taking notes on what she sees... and I believe it's not a she, but a he... those hands are huge. he's in drag under cover time traveler.
no really it's a radio and she's wealthy and she talks to herself like a lot of old ladies do...
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Its not a phone, its not even covering 'her' ear, see the screenshot below taken from 8:17 in the video above.
Also, who holds their phone like that? Even when he is mimicking her in the video, it looks unnatural to grip the phone like its gonna go flying away....most people hold phones with their fingertips.
Explanation? ...maybe a voice recorder? I dunno...
I call publicity stunt...all he wants is ppl to buy his stuff.
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I would guess he/she is practicing for a speech and has a device that projects the voice to the ear, so one could amplify their voice without disturbing others around them. It wouldn't be a "cell" phone without "cell" towers and satellites.
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There's one way to settle this once and for all...ask Mike.
I think he was at the Premier
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@Rich. I just sprayed beer on my screen.
I think she was just holding her hand near her face to keep from being recognized by her husband who thought she was at home doing the laundry and preparing his dinner.
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I think it was the director on site, directing human traffic and actors, calling the shots live, and hiding his face so the crowd would not recognize the firector. Settled.
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If this was really a time traveller - how would he/she be able to use a mobile phone without the necessary mobile phone network in place...?!?
Back then you didn't have mobile network antennas, no satelites or other wireless network systems, that would make it possible to use the mobile phone back then...
I believe - like so many others - it's something different the person is doing or it's hoax...
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I think it's Charlie Chaplin himself dressed up in drag as a gag.
He holds his hand up to his face on the camera side to make it more difficult to recognize him.
See these other images...
Compare the nose and lips...
His feet are also a give away...
He probably excluded it from the final film as on reflection he thought it 'lame'... -
Of course...it's an agent from Warehouse 11 or 12. Their communicator was crude, wasn't quite what the Farnsworth device evolved to be in Warehouse 13. This device doesn't need cellular service...doesn't everyone know that?
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That could just be it, same grip same size...good find.
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Nobody in the audience knows to read on the lips?
She (he, Charly) says : "I am making a travel time's joke"In any case a very cool teasing for show movies in the same (traveler
) time (some in the box, and one in the wall's poster), and well go the buzz -
@unknownuser said:
There's one way to settle this once and for all...ask Mike.
I think he was at the Premier
Thanks Rich I got a chuckle out of that comment also...Mike is the Gadget Guy after all...heck Now that I think about it maybe it is Mike himself...Maybe Mike is the time traveler....Mike if you are a time traveler can you travel to the future when I am rich and famous and get me to give you a million dollars and then bring it back to me in the present day..It's my money anyway so what difference does it make when I spend it...I already spend money I don't have why not spend my own money I don't yet have.....hehe Hope you are doing well Mike. I missed not seeing all the Original @Lasters
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Must be a slow week newswise
Has Belfast film-maker found time travel evidence?
A Belfast film-maker has posted a video on the internet showing what he says could be evidence of time travelling.
BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Regards,
Bob
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