Charlie Chaplin video

[potsy]

Just seen this on another forum,is there an explanation?
Quite long but stick with it.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6a4T2tJaSU

 

[alecstilleyedye]

it looks like she's on the phone. however:

• with no cell phone infrastructure existing in 1928, even if she had a phone, it would not work as a comms device
• time travellers are de facto people from the future relative to us, yet she looks like she is using a phone from the current era (of course the phone handset may have a long lifespan)
• nobody is giving her a second look, yet as recently as the '80s folk would be given funny looks if they were apparently talking to themselves in the street
• without seeing the original film reels, a practical joke can't be ruled out.

interestingly, the whole thing echos a recent doctor who episode where he is stuck in 1969 and uses appearances on dvds to retrieve his tardis. there's a conspiracy theory in that somewhere…

and on a related note, i was once stopped by a policeman in australia who was convinced i was on my phone while driving. i was actually scratching my head just above my ear, an explanation the copper accepted once i showed him that i had no phone on my person. the woman in the film might be holding a hat pin in, or something similar which you wouldn't see now, but would have been a common enough sight then, but it's easy to assume that she's holding a phone because we can't readly imagine what else she's doing. maybe she was scratching her head…

 

[Globalti]

Difficult to know what she's doing but one thing it proves is the fallibility of witnesses who assume somebody is doing something they take for granted when that person may be doing something completely unexpected.

 

[magnatom]

Mmm. Let me think.....is she a time traveler who happens to have a device that happens to look a bit like a mobile phone and who happens to be holding it next to her ear......OR...(and I will pluck this out of the air)....is she a lady who has an unfortunate nervous twitch or medical condition (possibly a mental disease) which leads to her walking about with a hand up to her ear mumbling away to herself.....


Mmmmm.

People like to believe in the fantastical. It makes our lives that little bit more exciting and interesting. Often the truth is less exciting......so it can't be that!

 

[potsy]

Must admit I'm a sucker for these kind of things,and like said above it does look amazingly like she/he is on a mobile.


To Magnatom- you'll be telling me next the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist won't you?

what about UFO's and the Yeti?

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Must admit I'm a sucker for these kind of things,and like said above it does look amazingly like she/he is on a mobile.


To Magnatom- you'll be telling me next the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist won't you?

what about UFO's and the Yeti?

isn't he in the star wars films?

 

[Chutzpah]

All my initial thoughts were the same as alecstilleyedye's. And it's also been pointed out that it might be an ear trumpet.

The guy who 'found' it is a film producer... does he need the publicity?

(Cynical? Moi?)

 

[magnatom]

To Magnatom- you'll be telling me next the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist won't you?

what about UFO's and the Yeti?

Ah, now Nessie, yes he does exist. No doubt about it. He must do, considering the significant effect he has on the Scottish economy.

 

[potsy]

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Ah, now Nessie, yes he does exist. No doubt about it. He must do, considering the significant effect he has on the Scottish economy.

Ah but I've seen Nessie so know he's real

 

[magnatom]

The Daily Mash has some more evidence of time travel.

 

[Archie_tect]

If you want proof of the existence or not of UFOs- meet at the disabled parking spaces outside the southbound Shap Services main entrance on the M6 on Sunday night between around 10.30 and 10.50pm.

Bring a camera with preferably with a motor drive or a decent resolution digital recorder, and some warm clothing- be prepared for a long night.

 

[Archie_tect]

 

[CharlieB]

Ok. Got a theory on this one. It's probably crap, but I think Alecs is on the right track in his 4th point about a practical joke.

Chaplin was a visionary in many ways. He was at the cutting edge of his particular art.

Is it really so much of a leap of the imagination for a man of Chaplin's ability to see mobile communication as a possibility in a country that already had an established telephone infrastructure? It would also be very Chaplin to hire a drag queen, and then ask him/her to act as though they were talking on a telephone, in the full knowledge that any Chaplin premiere is going to attract media interest, and thus be filmed.

Or is that too fanciful?

 

[Dayvo]

Is it really so much of a leap of the imagination for a man of Chaplin's ability to see mobile communication as a possibility in a country that already had an established telephone infrastructure?

In Lord of the Rings, didn't some elves or whatever have the talking stone or something!

They held something that gave them the image of the person they were talking to, IIRC!

And the hobbits had light-weight, warm capes that made the wearer invisible - something like soldiers use today.

Tolkien also may have been a visionary.