Time Travellers meet Charlie Chaplin.
There have been a few grand new “Time Traveller” discoveries in old photographs and films. There was the “What is this hipster doing in 1940?” item — if you’re here in 2010, this is the exact obscure thing you’d be dashing off to see.
There’s a woman with a cell phone in a Charlie Chaplin film!
‘Attending the premiere at Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California – the scene shows a large woman dressed in black with a hat hiding most of her face, with what can only be described as a mobile phone device – talking as she walks alone.
‘I have studied this film for over a year now – showing it to over 100 people and at a film festival, yet no one can give any explanation as to what she is doing.
‘My only theory – as well as many others – is simple… a time traveller on a mobile phone. See for yourself and feel free to leave a comment on your own explanation or thoughts about it.’
Chaplin’s The Circus was one of the master director’s final silent movies and won him the Academy Award in 1929 for ‘Versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing’.
Or is there?
(I have to wonder why any time traveler would carefully don era-appropriate clothing, yet yak on a future phone in a very public place right in front of a film crew. Also, how was she getting service?)
The answer to the last question is pretty simple. She came with several other time, and set up their Cell Phone Frequency towers theirownselves for their use. It makes more sense than dismissing the spotty image as something other than a cell phone.