Time Traveler caught on film in 1928?

[Qui-Gonzalez]

Just saw this footage on a local news station's website. It's from the premier of charlie Chaplin's film "The Circus". It shows a "woman" (Damn, she has big feet) walking and holding something to her ear, turn to the camera and it looks like she is talking into whatever is in her ear.

Now, no cell towers, no satellites in 1928. Could it just be a crazy person trying to hide their face?

Someone get Doc Brown on this.

 

[Jet Beetle]

That's Marty on his walkie talkie. Or Kirk in "Piece of the Action"

But seriously, even if it is a time traveler - the cell wouldn't work.

I had a time travel dream once where my friends and I had gone back to the early eighties and attended a comic book convention where everything was dirt cheap. We gathered a ton of stuff then i went to pay and the guy said my card wouldn't work so I asked him where the nearest ATM was and he said "What' s an atm?"

What a POWERFUL wet dream that was.

 

[Eopie Herder]

That was fun to watch. That guy truly believes in what he is saying, and you can't help wanting to believe with him.

 

[Wes R]

Those are the fun people to listen to because you know they aren't trying to BS you they honestly think that they're right. Ten to one it was something innocent. Heck she coulda been nuts lol. I have a constant dream where i go back to the 80s and get all the toys i couldn't get as a kid lol. Buy 30 of every GI joe and other figure worth cash cheap and come back to live like a king.

 

[WarPig]

Ok, let's step back for a second.

The person in question appears to be holding a device to her ear and talking into it. The main argument is "cell phone? Nah! No cell towers, no satellites"... Um, last I looked, our current technology has those, but no time travel. Wouldn't one assume that if it were a time traveler, the technology would be sophisticated enough to produce a communication device that would work in 1928? And who's not to say it's not a time traveler at all, but a "visitor" trying to blend in (insert one of many, many Star Trek episodes where they had to go among the planetary residents).

Too much "Back to the Future" fever. ;-)

 

[Alan Cross]

Could it be a hearing aid? A hearing aid powered by martian science... from the FUTURE.

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

But seriously, even if it is a time traveler - the cell wouldn't work.

That's what I was thinking too, but as others have said, if you can travel through time, what's to say you cannot communicate without cell towers?

I believe it was a camera shy woman hiding her face.

 

[Kylash]

and talking to herself

 

[Wes R]

Well it is hollywood so folks talking to themselves and acting nuts is normal lol

 

[Larry Young]

It's Sam Beckett. Right before he turns to the camera you can lip-read him say "Oh, boy..." and disappears!

 

[CatfoodRob]

It's Sam Beckett. Right before he turns to the camera you can lip-read him say "Oh, boy..." and disappears!

I knew it !!!!!!!!!!!! Well spotted Larry .

 

[thegreatgalling]

Those are the fun people to listen to because you know they aren't trying to BS you they honestly think that they're right. Ten to one it was something innocent. Heck she coulda been nuts lol. I have a constant dream where i go back to the 80s and get all the toys i couldn't get as a kid lol. Buy 30 of every GI joe and other figure worth cash cheap and come back to live like a king.

No offense, but if you ever get that chance, I am sure investing in Microsoft would yield much more than Toys R Us!

 

[OldKen]

No offense, but if you ever get that chance, I am sure investing in Microsoft would yield much more than Toys R Us!

What is a "time triveler"? :rolleyes

If I could go back in time I would invest in apple AND microsoft. That way people wouldn't think time traveler... they would just think crazy person. :lol

 

[Jet Beetle]

If I could go back I would make sure my mother mated with someone taller than my dad - just once I'd like to look for a pair of jeans where the length is a higher number than the waist!!!

 

[Commander Max]

I think she doesn't want to be photographed.

 

[dualedge]

I can't believe that thing has gotten as much attention as it has.

Of course, considering the fact we're talking about the same culture that seems to think news of a white iphone delay is a big deal too, I really shouldn't be too surprised... :lol

 

[DarkHelmet]

She's a Watcher!

 

[Nexus6]

Could it be a hearing aid? A hearing aid powered by martian science... from the FUTURE.

French "Electric Camera" Hearing Aid, circa ~1930 (scroll about halfway down the page)

/not saying ^that^ means anything, I'm just saying. Personally, I'm voting for TIME TRAVELLAR!!!111

 

[PHArchivist]

Makes me laugh how dramatic the dude from Belfast was being over something that certainly has a benign, pedestrian, BORING explanation.

Over 100 peolple in his audience and NO ONE could offer an explanation...! :rolleyes

Within just a couple of hours, the RPF has already offered a highly viable explanation.

Then again, it was the same venerable and intrepid RPF that found a light sabre part INSIDE a jet engine...

 

[cayman shen]

It's obviously nonsense, but it's fun nonsense. I think we need this kind of thing just to make our skin tingle a little, even if we don't actually buy it. As long as nobody starts some crazy kill cult over it, what the heck.