Possible cell phone in movie from 1928

Check this out, very interesting. Also Motorola started up in 1928. Who knew??

Footage of Old Lady talking into what seems to be a mobile phone. The footage in available on DVD of the movie The Circus.

http://daveandthomas.net/2010/10/21/can-you-hear-me-now-charlie-chaplin-time-traveler-caught-on-tape-from-1928/

Celly Smunt

strange

The Aussie

Thr old Tranny has nitts, thats all, no big fuss...

azzeretti

Jake1 wrote: »

Check this out, very interesting. Also Motorola started up in 1928. Who knew??

Footage of Old Lady talking into what seems to be a mobile phone. The footage in available on DVD of the movie The Circus.

http://daveandthomas.net/2010/10/21/can-you-hear-me-now-charlie-chaplin-time-traveler-caught-on-tape-from-1928/

Time traveller!!?? Who the f*ck is (s)he talking to back in 1928 if (s)he is time travelling!!

It is some fat bint scrathing her ear with while she has something in her hand while talking to herself - she is cleary possessed.

knird evol

She's definitely on the phone. I wonder is she calling a landline or is she speaking to someone else who has a non-existent mobile phone.

goatboy1000

fair enough, but who is she on the phone to?

Liam Byrne

OK - I'll bite.

Now who could she possibly be talking TO ?

abouttobebanned

Speaking as a heterosexual man - I'd listen to this guy all day.

weird , isnt it? It was taken outside Manns Chinese theatre the night of the Screening apparently.
Wonder if its a dude, or just a really butch woman.
people have said its Alastair Crowley. have to google whoever that is .Does look blokey to me.

CreepingDeath

First thing that occured to me...

She was listening to a portable radio.
Would have to check the timelines for the technology available then, but obviously in the days of black and white tv radio was still very active.

Anyway, why would a time traveller have such a cumbersome device ?
Whenever we've the technology for time travel, communication devices can be embedded into our bodies.

punchdrunk

bet her coverage was shíte!

Captain Havoc

The guy walking would have reacted to her talking.

Conor108

2-way radio? Bring an iPhone to 1928, you can play angry birds but you won't be able to make a call without a network.

Dj

Her mobile number was 1

knird evol

CreepingDeath wrote: »

First thing that occured to me...

She was listening to a portable radio.
Would have to check the timelines for the technology available then, but obviously in the days of black and white tv radio was still very active.

Anyway, why would a time traveller have such a cumbersome device ?
Whenever we've the technology for time travel, communication devices can be embedded into our bodies.

Radio was cutting edge technology at this time, and certainly not portable or miniature. As for Crowley, what would he need a phone for. I think he put his magical powers to better use, such as summoning up demons

Nolanger

Doubt it was a mobile phone but they definitely had ATMs back then in America though they didn't arrive over here until the '60s.

ya, ive always thought all the transvestite time travellers from the future would get into 20's fashion..bound to happen..

*sarcasm hat off..
this dude needs to step away from the old movies and get out more..
the women is scratching the side of her head..
solved..

squod

Watched the same reel today on tele. Whatever happened to series.....

Dj

Nolanger wrote: »

Doubt it was a mobile phone but they definitely had ATMs back then in America though they didn't arrive over here until the '60s.

I'm fairly sure it wasn't an ATM anyway :rolleyes:

Bus77II

She hide's money in her mouth. Slip's coins into her purse on the sly when needed.

Solved.

CreepingDeath

http://www.charliechaplin.com/biography/1 wrote:

In the late 1960s, after the years spent trying to forget it, Chaplin returned to The Circus to re-release it with a new musical score of his own composition.

Maybe this was a 1960's clip inserted into the 1928 film ?
With some dodgy new fangled radio technology being added by mistake ?

CreepingDeath

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Maybe this was a 1960's clip inserted into the 1928 film ?
With some dodgy new fangled radio technology being added by mistake ?

I thought it was a clip insert as well to be honest. But having said that when you look at the shodwo cast by the man in front, you can see the woman enter the shadow, so I dont know if its an insert or not. Certainly interesting tho.

Gone West

http://hearing.siemens.com/sg/10-about-us/01-our-history/milestones.jsp?year=1924

thats what it is. No biggie.

Son Of A Vidic

Fuzzy wrote: »

http://hearing.siemens.com/sg/10-about-us/01-our-history/milestones.jsp?year=1924

thats what it is. No biggie.

Interesting, but the chap in the shot is well ahead of her so who is she speaking to? Why would she speak into it? to hear herself?

Diddler1977

What a bore, George really likes to hear himself talk.

Columbia

You have to love how he says that "it's obviously not an AM/FM radio, because it's 1928", but believes that it's almost definitely in fact a mobile phone.

The only thing I'm absolutely sure of is that whatever she's holding to her ear, it isn't a mobile phone.

liah

2 simple explanations.

1) Radio.
2) Crazy.

Jesus Wept

Jesus Christ, some person with their hand to their ear in a silent movie.
Time traveller? wtf?

It could be a radio, it could be someone with their hand to their ear.

The phone was invented long before this anyhow.

The first mobile telephone call made from a car occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on June 17, 1946, it's hardly inconceivable that people may have considered the possibility that these phones might become portable.

KeithAFC

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Speaking as a heterosexual man - I'd listen to this guy all day.

Why? lol. Its only an accent.

Banter Joe

Can rule out the latest iphone anyway, seeing as she's holding the phone with her left hand.

Dj

If this was a time traveler, i wonder how much he/she was charged for roaming. I got stung for roaming in Spain last year, if Vodafone knew i went back to the roaring 20's there would be a serious bill coming my way.

gurramok

Sure Leonardo Da Vinci designed and used futuristic inventions so in this case Charlie Chaplin had a futuristic mind for his films, so what?

Kernel

The-Rigger wrote: »

It could be a radio, it could be someone with their hand to their ear.

At that time there were no 'portable' radio5 as 5uch.

wiki wrote:

Bell Laboratories demonstrated the first transistor on December 23, 1947.[1] The scientific team at Bell Laboratories responsible for the solid-state amplifier included William Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain, and John Bardeen.[2] After obtaining patent protection, the company held a news conference on June 30, 1948, at which a prototype transistor radio was demonstrated.[3] There are many claimants to the title of the first company to produce practical transistor radios, often incorrectly attributed to Sony (originally Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo). Texas Instruments had demonstrated all-transistor AM (amplitude modulation) radios as early as 1952, but their performance was well below that of equivalent vacuum tube models. A workable all-transistor radio was demonstrated in August 1953 at the Düsseldorf Radio Fair by the German firm Intermetall. It was built with four of Intermetall's hand-made transistors, based upon the 1948 invention of Herbert Mataré and Heinrich Welker. However, as with the early Texas Instruments units (and others) only prototypes were ever built; it was never put into commercial production. RCA had demonstrated a prototype transistor radio as early as 1952 and it is likely that they and the other radio makers were planning transistor radios of their own, but Texas Instruments and Regency were the first to offer a production model.

From Wiki.

The phone was invented long before this anyhow.

The first mobile telephone call made from a car occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on June 17, 1946, it's hardly inconceivable that people may have considered the possibility that these phones might become portable.[/QUOTE]

Nahhh...

Expensive and far from "mobile", the service cost $15 per month, plus 30 to 40 cents per local call, and the equipment weighed 80 pounds. Just as they would use a CB microphone, users depressed a button on the handset to talk and released it to listen.

Wonder what el5e it could be?

Liam Byrne

Kernel wrote: »

At that time there were no 'portable' radio5 as 5uch.

Radio 5 ????? There wasn't even a Radio 1!!!!

Jesus Wept

The first mobile weighed 80 pounds, it doesn't mean that someone was unable to imagine a regular sized telephone and picture it as mobile and of a smaller size.

Will people watch Star Trek in years to come and think that they must be time travelers?

mikemac

Cell phone?

Are you American OP?

Overheal

feelingstressed wrote: »

Cell phone?

Are you American OP?

FYI: Americans use boards. And so do Irish Americans. And immigrant workers.

mikemac

I didn't ask aggressively

I just asked a question

punchdrunk

She's clearly rockin out to a bit of Wagner,off her chops on some legal amphetamine!

up for anything

Looks like Nanny McPhee chatting to her next family on an original Star Trek communicator!

bowsie010

Her hearing aid fell out.

Spunge

Then who was phone ?

abouttobebanned

KeithAFC wrote: »

Why? lol. Its only an accent.

I dunno...it's ice cream for my ears. (remember - hetro)

iPlop

spot the time traveller in 1940's

Fluorescence

It doesn't even look like there's anything in her hand to me. She was probably scratching her head or (being in Hollywood) was perhaps an actress trying to remember her lines. I don't see a phone anyway.

knird evol

I think the camera man was on acid and not of this happened at all

Yakult

Those were the special effects back in the day.

AnonoBoy

She's walking past the camera, covering her face saying, "Don't film me ya bastard, I'm supposed to be at work!"

Cabaal

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/10/28/1545230/1928-Time-Traveler-Caught-On-Film

Irish filmmaker George Clarke, who claims to have found a person using a cellphone in the "unused footage" section of the DVD The Circus, a Charlie Chaplin movie filmed in 1928. To me the bigger mystery is how someone who appears to be the offspring of Ram-Man and The Penguin got into a movie in the first place, especially if they were talking to a little metal box on set. Watch the video and decide for yourself.

Just to burst his bubble but it looks like its a old Siemens hearing aid
http://hearing.siemens.com/en/10-about-us/01-our-history/milestones.jsp?page=3&year=1924

I expect atleast one back to the future reference within the first 10 posts,

Biggins

Done already, sorry.

FearDark

Biggins wrote: »

Done already, sorry.

Its always been done before. Its AH. Copy and paste central. Its why I post elsewhere.