Time Traveller in Charlie Chaplin Feature?

[Saga]

i might have been convinced if say, she got out of a delorian.

 

[Trekker4747]

So, a person walks by with a hand to her ear and people assume "time traveling cell phone"?

Well, watch the video! The guy says he's not sure what else it could be so obviously the first conclusion should make is "time traveling octogenarian using a cell phone in a location where it couldn't and wouldn't work" and not "old woman who looks like Grandpa Munster walking around using an antique hearing aid."

 

[Alpinemaps]

Or, maybe...

...this is actual footage, and it's just fun to speculate what it might be? Cause, ya know, we're used to seeing people do that in 2010, but not in 1928.

 

[scotpens]

I'm not convinced the footage is even real yet.

I'm with you. I suspect Photoshop.

Oh, the footage is real enough. It's the interpretation that's totally batshit.

BTW, Photoshop is used for manipulating and editing still images. To create fake movie footage, you'd use a video editing-and-effects program like After Effects.

. . . The guy says he's not sure what else it could be so obviously the first conclusion should make is “time traveling octogenarian using a cell phone in a location where it couldn't and wouldn't work” and not “old woman who looks like Grandpa Munster walking around using an antique hearing aid.”

Apparently the guy never heard of Occam’s Razor.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Or, maybe...

...this is actual footage, and it's just fun to speculate what it might be? Cause, ya know, we're used to seeing people do that in 2010, but not in 1928.

Begone with your reasonableness!

 

[T'Baio]

I can't believe this has actually caught on through the web. It's even on CNN now.

There's a lot of seriously fucking stupid and gullible people out there.

 

[Servo]

Considering there were no cell towers or sattelites on 1928 I doubt it's a cell-phone else it'd have no means of working!

Great imagination there, kid. Like people hadn't already thought of that. Obvious reality is obvious.

Taking the fantastical sci-fi approach; The Doctor fixes his companion's phones so they can work anywhere, anytime, without needing towers and satellites.
But as others said, just because it's being used in the same way as a cell phone, doesn't mean it's one as we know.

There's a lot of seriously fucking stupid and gullible people out there.

Just cause people are having a laugh with the concept, doesn't mean they believe it's anything more than it is.

Jesus, there are some boring fuckers on the internet. Always so eager to prove they're smarter than everyone else.

 

[trekkiedane]

tldw

 

[T'Baio]

Just cause people are having a laugh with the concept, doesn't mean they believe it's anything more than it is.

I'm not referring to the people having a laugh.

 

[Shazam!]

I hope they put it in like Doctor Who or something, like maybe it's a companion in disguise talking to the Doctor on some device.

 

[Brent]

If it is a hearing aid, then who is she talking to?

If its a phone from the future, it may not need cell towers to communicate, and would have to have another means of transmitting and receiving if its capable of communicating across time, a sort of temporal communication, therefore why the device might be bigger than what we have now. Perhaps the lady was talking to someone in the future.

 

[Data Holmes]

I just saw this on FoxNews. They pointed out that most of the ideas people are putting out as an explanation for the "device" actually weren't "invented" yet, and that while it may be a hearing assistance device, it doesn't quite match the known examples and still offers no explanation as to who she is talking to.

 

[Servo]

Just cause people are having a laugh with the concept, doesn't mean they believe it's anything more than it is.

I'm not referring to the people having a laugh.

So "I can't believe this has actually caught on through the web" wasn't meant to imply that everyone should have just called it for what it was and killed it stone dead, instead of letting it fuel their imaginations and having some fun with the concept?

 

[TheGodBen]

Maybe we're looking at this all wrong. Perhaps the inventor of the mobile phone saw this clip and thought the woman looked stylish, so he invented a device that would allow him to do the same thing without being completely insane, like the woman in the clip. The fact that mobile phones have a practical purpose was just a bonus.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Maybe we're looking at this all wrong. Perhaps the inventor of the mobile phone saw this clip and thought the woman looked stylish, so he invented a device that would allow him to do the same thing without being completely insane, like the woman in the clip. The fact that mobile phones have a practical purpose was just a bonus.

It's all becoming clear now. Steve Jobs got the idea for the iPhone after watching this movie Wonder if we can look at any other Chaplin movies and see something that resembles an iPad.

 

[ToddKent]

I think the object being held is just a run of the mill hearing aid type device that was used during the time.

But the woman is definitely a time traveler....wait for it...from THE PAST!!! She traveled forward in time to the 1920's to obtain a futuristic device that would help her poor hearing.

What a twist!

 

[Servo]

^ It's been done.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Simpsons did it.

 

[Servo]

Simpsons did it.

H.G. Wells did it first.

 

[Amaris]

Just cause people are having a laugh with the concept, doesn't mean they believe it's anything more than it is.

I'm not referring to the people having a laugh.

So "I can't believe this has actually caught on through the web" wasn't meant to imply that everyone should have just called it for what it was and killed it stone dead, instead of letting it fuel their imaginations and having some fun with the concept?

Now see, I have fun debunking things like this. It's not to spoil anyone's fun. I just get a kick out of trying to figuring out what it is.