"Time Traveller" spotted in 1928 Charlie Chaplin Film
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It's a futuristic phone that can communicate through time.
Just imagine the roaming charges for those calls ...
Come on, Chris, you're an author. People are just plotting stories in their mind for fun. A time traveller caught on film, and recognized decades later, but still long before time travel has been invented. What was his business there? Awesome.
It does look pretty convincing. 
Could be anything - an old lady with a toothache holding a small bag of ice to her cheek, and the bag is so small we can barely see it. With all the film footage of all the movies out there, there are bound to be a few things that strike us as weird but didn't look weird at the time.
Alternatively, perhaps time travellers are getting their jollies appearing as extras in movies, doing things that will only be recognized decades later. (Which explains why it doesn't matter that she couldn't get phone service and there was no one else to talk to anyway - it was always intended as a time travel prank.) So if that's true, let's try to spot people doing things that we don't recognize now, but will recognize, in about 50 years.
Could be anything - an old lady with a toothache holding a small bag of ice to her cheek, and the bag is so small we can barely see it. With all the film footage of all the movies out there, there are bound to be a few things that strike us as weird but didn't look weird at the time.Alternatively, perhaps time travellers are getting their jollies appearing as extras in movies, doing things that will only be recognized decades later. (Which explains why it doesn't matter that she couldn't get phone service and there was no one else to talk to anyway - it was always intended as a time travel prank.) So if that's true, let's try to spot people doing things that we don't recognize now, but will recognize, in about 50 years.
I love stuff like this... its like the 3 Men & a Baby ghost kid.
I never heard the ghost boy rumor before...here's the clip.
And since we're on the topic - Suicide Munchkin in Wizard of Oz!
And since we're on the topic - Suicide Munchkin in Wizard of Oz!
Everyone's missing the BIG question. why would anyone send an old fat lady back in time?
Surely a time traveller would have bluetooth?
Watch what Eddie Cantor does in this scene from the musical film Whoopee, released in 1930. At about 2:15, as he sings the line “He doesn’t phone or even write,” he pantomimes using a two-piece candlestick phone, then quickly switches his gesture to mimic the new handset phones. It's a visual gag that reflects the changing technology of the time.
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And note how far out his hand is angled from his face when he mimics the handset gesture, not up close like a modern cell-phone user. That's because the handsets were much bigger and had rather large ear- and mouthpieces.
How come whenever "footage" showing something strange is aired it is always grainy or very hard to make out any details? If you want to convince me I want to see some footage that clearly shows a cell phone in her hand and then show me proof that it wasn't faked.
This is fake or it shows a nut case walking down the street talking to herself. If this chick was talking on a cellphone then how come the man walking in front of her isnt looking back at her because I'm sure if he heard somebody walking behind him talking, he might have turned around to see if he was being addressed or not.
This is fake or it shows a nut case walking down the street talking to herself. If this chick was talking on a cellphone then how come the man walking in front of her isnt looking back at her because I'm sure if he heard somebody walking behind him talking, he might have turned around to see if he was being addressed or not.
Well, this footage is grainy because it's from 1928, and because it had to be blown up to get a good look at this person. There's no reason to assume it was faked; I mean, come on, it's just someone holding their hand to their head in a gesture that, to modern eyes, coincidentally happens to resemble the way a person holds a cell phone, but which was done for some entirely different, probably very boring reason. Nothing more mysterious or suspicious than that.
The human race in the future is composed entirely of old fat ladies?
Okay seriously, I did notice her uh adrogynous nature and wondered for a split second whether the human race in the future evolves beyond genders altogether? And since there is no longer any such thing as sex, they spend all their spare time bopping around the space-time continuum and pulling pranks like this one.
