Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller
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Obviously it can't be a mobile phone - there would be no network of masts to transmit a signal even if you could take one back to 1928. Just a woman holding something to her head.
I talk to myself as I'm walking along - Its called thinking aloud. It doesn't mean I'm on the phone. This is a classic case of a modern audience seeing a gesture that we now automatically associate with mobile phone usage, and assuming that there cannot be any other explanation.
As others have said, it looks like a period hearing aid.
I talk to myself as I'm walking along - Its called thinking aloud. It doesn't mean I'm on the phone. This is a classic case of a modern audience seeing a gesture that we now automatically associate with mobile phone usage, and assuming that there cannot be any other explanation.
As others have said, it looks like a period hearing aid.
If it's a time traveller with a mobile phone, three questions immediately arise:
1. Why such a large phone? Nobody's got a phone that big today.
2. Who are they talking to?
3. Why would you travel through time only to show up in a Charlie Chaplin movie? That's a pretty obscure practical joke.
Could be a period hearing aid, could be CGI manipulation to produce a clever viral video. Anybody got a copy of the film in question?
It always amuses me that people take anything they see on video seriously in this day and age. Next they'll be wondering how Steve Martin managed to persuade Humphrey Bogart to appear in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" 35 years after his death... And he managed it before the invention of convincing CGI, so it must be true!
1. Why such a large phone? Nobody's got a phone that big today.
2. Who are they talking to?
3. Why would you travel through time only to show up in a Charlie Chaplin movie? That's a pretty obscure practical joke.
Could be a period hearing aid, could be CGI manipulation to produce a clever viral video. Anybody got a copy of the film in question?
It always amuses me that people take anything they see on video seriously in this day and age. Next they'll be wondering how Steve Martin managed to persuade Humphrey Bogart to appear in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" 35 years after his death... And he managed it before the invention of convincing CGI, so it must be true!
You guys! wheres your sense of adventure or imagination?
although if I think with my logical head on it was more than likely that the woman was stark raving mad and always spoke to herself, but.................. if I think with my HG Wells head on the skys the limit with sci fi explanations.
although if I think with my logical head on it was more than likely that the woman was stark raving mad and always spoke to herself, but.................. if I think with my HG Wells head on the skys the limit with sci fi explanations.
just before the shot goes , the grip is released and the fingers touch the rim of the hat,...
if he were holding anything it would have dropped.....
as said,.,.looks like a gesture of sorts which we now associate with the mobile,.....
if he were holding anything it would have dropped.....
as said,.,.looks like a gesture of sorts which we now associate with the mobile,.....
Whittler Kev
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Soon be on the news or the X-Files.
As someone said (may have been me) if there will ever be time travel in the future, why have we never met someone thats come back in time.
As to the no mast bit - if they can send someone back in time...come on ...they can surely make sound travel with them.
Never seen the Star Trek episode about micro wormholes. How did Janeway here about Reg trying to help them in the Alpha Quadrant?
OH NO must be Aliens from Area 51. OK being the devils advocate again
In all seriousness you may as well keep an open mind because as I tell the kids at school, a closed mind can never learn.
"Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you, live your life with eyes wide open, today is where your life begins, the rest is still unwritten"
If you recognise the song award yourself 5 points in the game of life. (I made all the kids in my year group when I was Head of Year memorise the words and picked kids out to tell me (and anyone else in assembly) what they thought they meant - it was our year anthem)
By the way it's a nice wallet and purse hearing aid in the link that looks just like the phone in the film hehehehehehe
As someone said (may have been me) if there will ever be time travel in the future, why have we never met someone thats come back in time.
As to the no mast bit - if they can send someone back in time...come on ...they can surely make sound travel with them.
Never seen the Star Trek episode about micro wormholes. How did Janeway here about Reg trying to help them in the Alpha Quadrant?
OH NO must be Aliens from Area 51. OK being the devils advocate again
In all seriousness you may as well keep an open mind because as I tell the kids at school, a closed mind can never learn.
"Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you, live your life with eyes wide open, today is where your life begins, the rest is still unwritten"
If you recognise the song award yourself 5 points in the game of life. (I made all the kids in my year group when I was Head of Year memorise the words and picked kids out to tell me (and anyone else in assembly) what they thought they meant - it was our year anthem)
By the way it's a nice wallet and purse hearing aid in the link that looks just like the phone in the film hehehehehehe
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Roaming charges are high enough for foreign travel, they should be astronomical for time travel.
Happy trails...torc.
Happy trails...torc.
Well, precisely.
Mass to energy and back again and all that.
And then you need to compute your trip.
You need s honking great quantum computer and an even honkiner energy source.
Thats for a start.
But we must not underestimate the dedication of Chaplins fans.
Mass to energy and back again and all that.
And then you need to compute your trip.
You need s honking great quantum computer and an even honkiner energy source.
Thats for a start.
But we must not underestimate the dedication of Chaplins fans.
Soon be on the news or the X-Files.
As someone said (may have been me) if there will ever be time travel in the future, why have we never met someone thats come back in time.
As to the no mast bit - if they can send someone back in time...come on ...they can surely make sound travel with them.
Never seen the Star Trek episode about micro wormholes. How did Janeway here about Reg trying to help them in the Alpha Quadrant?
OH NO must be Aliens from Area 51. OK being the devils advocate again
In all seriousness you may as well keep an open mind because as I tell the kids at school, a closed mind can never learn.
"Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you, live your life with eyes wide open, today is where your life begins, the rest is still unwritten"
If you recognise the song award yourself 5 points in the game of life. (I made all the kids in my year group when I was Head of Year memorise the words and picked kids out to tell me (and anyone else in assembly) what they thought they meant - it was our year anthem)
By the way it's a nice wallet and purse hearing aid in the link that looks just like the phone in the film hehehehehehe
nice post man,..
Nice fake, but the the resolution of the hand comapaired to the body is wrong with maby a bit of manipulation of the face but definatly a pro fake,
1. IF it is a time traveller, who's to say from what time they travelled??
2. Could well be some 'nutter' simply talking to themself - they just get away with it these days by using a phone as cover
3. Posible that the film premier wasn't the reason for the time travel, and they were just simply walking down the road, looking for the 'Doc' to repair the flux capacitor
Next they'll be wondering how Steve Martin managed to persuade Humphrey Bogart to appear in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" 35 years after his death... And he managed it before the invention of convincing CGI, so it must be true!
Love that film, think it's great the way all those old/dead actors virtually seamlessly appear in the film - in a similar way to those old Holsten Pils adverts Griff Rhys Jones did
I dunno about all the theories of CGI, pre CGI ability but I've watched and re watched that film for the last few days.
I'm looking at the old Wedding fotos right now as I type, and that's my dear late Gran in the film on the phone/cotton bud in the ear saying "nng nng nng".
Where's Doris Stokes when you need her...
talking of cons.
I'm looking at the old Wedding fotos right now as I type, and that's my dear late Gran in the film on the phone/cotton bud in the ear saying "nng nng nng".
Where's Doris Stokes when you need her...
talking of cons.
This is seriously dead stupid, time travel is a matter only for the very far out breed of quantumphysist (The sort with purple hair who live on caffine, type)
or a Back to the future fan, which was a very lame film.
And we are not those types, yes?
or a Back to the future fan, which was a very lame film.
And we are not those types, yes?
Shambling Shaman
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Dam my cover is blown,, Well must go see you all in few years........................................................
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