Possible cell phone in movie from 1928

22-10-2010 07:49PM #1

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 · 22-10-2010 07:51PM

strange

The Aussie · 22-10-2010 07:57PM

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

azzeretti · 22-10-2010 07:58PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:00PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:01PM

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

Liam Byrne · 22-10-2010 08:02PM

OK - I'll bite.

Now who could she possibly be talking TO ?

abouttobebanned · 22-10-2010 08:04PM

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

22-10-2010 08:06PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:08PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:10PM

bet her coverage was shíte!

Captain Havoc · 22-10-2010 08:11PM

The guy walking would have reacted to her talking.

Conor108 · 22-10-2010 08:12PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:13PM

Her mobile number was 1

knird evol · 22-10-2010 08:17PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:18PM

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.

22-10-2010 08:21PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:24PM

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

Dj · 22-10-2010 08:25PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:29PM

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

Solved.

CreepingDeath · 22-10-2010 08:30PM

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 ?

22-10-2010 08:36PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:37PM

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 · 22-10-2010 08:45PM

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 · 22-10-2010 09:19PM

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

Columbia · 22-10-2010 09:30PM

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 · 22-10-2010 09:36PM

2 simple explanations.

1) Radio.
2) Crazy.

Jesus Wept · 22-10-2010 09:54PM

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 · 22-10-2010 10:15PM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

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

Why? lol. Its only an accent.

Banter Joe · 22-10-2010 10:15PM

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

Dj · 22-10-2010 10:18PM

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.

Possible cell phone in movie from 1928

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