Charlie Chaplin + iPhone + Fat lady = Time Travel Proof

[GreyArea]

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/Acousticon/info/acousticonmodela.htm

Thanks for the tip. Next time I'm visiting the 1920's, I'll conceal my MP3 player in one of these.

Call it an "acoustIcon".

 

[bookitty]

My goodness! That's amazing, a modern film maker that does their homework and studies classic film from the 1920's! Almost too incredible to accept on such scant evidence.

As for the "phone," I see a hand with loosely curled fingers being held up near the ear. I don't see anything in the hand. I agree that it is probably one of the more probable explanations listed above.

Or simply that wigs itch and wigs slide under a hat. A wig that is starting to slide is adjusted with many small quick tugs from the opposite side, or subtly held in place until the wearer can get to a mirror. It was not uncommon for older women to wear a wig when their own hair started to thin, especially to an occasion like a film opening at the Chinese Theater. (Which, in 1928, would have been the equivalent of opening night at the Opera.)

 

[Big Les]

I'm saying nothing new here, but I did a rare reaction post on this the other day. It has to be shameless viral marketing IMO.

http://bshistorian.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/wheres-she-hiding-the-flux-capacitor/

 

[Sunstar]

a time traveller with a wireless connection 70 years before anybody else. Maybe there were more than one time traveller with mobile phones hanging around in 1928...

 

[tkmikkelsen]

Time Traveler Presents a Logical Problem.

There is a logical problem with this being a video clip of a time traveler. In order to explain this problem, I set the rule that no time traveler can ever be known public as that could have unforeseen consequences in the future.
If it is a time traveler then it would have to be a person from our future as we do not have the ability to time travel. What that means is that this person would in the future know of this film clip and can then take measures to not being filmed in first place. Meaning that then this video clip would never exist in our time and therefor we would not be able to see it on YouTube right now.
Therefor the fact that this video exist is the best proof that it is not a time traveler.

I personally go for the hearing aid theory as being the most plausible.

 

[jiggeryqua]

There is a logical problem with this being a video clip of a time traveler. In order to explain this problem, I set the rule that no time traveler can ever be known public as that could have unforeseen consequences in the future.
If it is a time traveler then it would have to be a person from our future as we do not have the ability to time travel. What that means is that this person would in the future know of this film clip and can then take measures to not being filmed in first place. Meaning that then this video clip would never exist in our time and therefor we would not be able to see it on YouTube right now.
Therefor the fact that this video exist is the best proof that it is not a time traveler.

Ah, but the fact is he is dressed as an old woman tends to indicate someone disguising their true identity, in all probability because he had stolen the time-travel technology and was on the run from the Chronocops. In the clip, he has clearly become aware of the camera and has, no doubt, worked through the same thought processes as you. That's why he's speaking into his voice-activated teleport device - you'll notice he fades out very soon after activating the teleport (I'm surprised nobody else has picked up on that!)

Obviously, the future law enforcers would be aware of this and seek to cover it up, so at least part of your hypothesis was reasonable if not quite accurate. However, the fact that this video does exist is actually proof that the film will go on to play some significant part in some future event, such that altering it in the past in any way would be disasterous for us all.

Luckily, the time police already know that our cynical age will shrug, shake their heads and say "It's a hearing aid, you looney". You're just playing into their hands...

 

[brenn]

Not much to say really. Just watch and be amazed.

I'm amazed.

I'm amazed at how much of that video was taken up by that idiot talking - I can only imagine it would have been worse with my speakers on. Luckily the video is also available without him, on youtube, so I went there.

Having finally gotten past "the guy" I am amazed that people manufacture a cell phone ,in their imaginations, because the person's hand is in the right position, even with enlargements showing an empty hand.

I'm amazed that I, being simple-minded, only see a clear video of a man and woman walking along together (distance and matched pace at first), probably in California, in winter, in bright sunlight. The woman, who is holding one hand up to shade her eyes against the sun, pauses and possibly says something to the man - I'm guessing maybe a discussion of directions or where she wants to go, since she looks around a little at the same time.

I'm amazed that some retard in England thinks this is amazing.

 

[akenlon]

I'm amazed that some retard in England thinks this is amazing.

I'm not. For one thing, it is fun to look for anomalies like this. A large part of the fun is to look at the oddity and to comment on it. Even to the point of coming up with off the wall theories as to why the anomaly is there in the first place.

I myself would have said "WTF? What the flarn is she holding? Damned if that doesn't look like she's holding a mobile phone."

Then my friends and I would make the comments like it's Aliens in disguise talking to the mothership or to the other special operatives in the field. Time travel certainly would have come up. "Can you hear me now? Can you hear me a week last Tuesday? would have been spoken as an obvious parody of the Verizon commercials. Someone would have brought up the Men in Black since they have alien tech that eventually was released to the public.

But here is what separates people like me from people like the guy in the vid. After we got the silliness out of our system, we would have finally started looking for the plausible explanation and then moved on. Perhaps saving the video for a gullible friend of ours to have a little fun at their expense.

In the end, we would know that it is just an amusing anomaly and move on with our lives.

This guy seems to think he has found proof of time travel and will not let go of it.

Besides...if you were going to go back with that sort of tech...wouldn't you have hidden it with a bluetooth device? I'm sure you could make one that looks like the hearing aid of the time.

 

[jiggeryqua]

I'm amazed that some retard in England thinks this is amazing.

If you'd have had your speakers on you would have heard him say he was from Belfast. That's in Northern Ireland, so not in England or Great Britain, but (contentiously) it is part of the United Kingdom.

You might also have been more aware that he has product to plug, so perhaps his 'amazement' has been manufactured for personal gain. That's not so amazing. Indeed, I've been amusing myself by spinning some connected yarns, so even with nothing to gain, his 'amazement' might easily have a mundane explaination.

I'm amazed that some people still say 'retard'. Is retardation so common in Kentucky that the word is commonplace and unremarkable?

 

[Jungle Jim]

I'm surprised he assumes it is a time traveler. My first thought was that the person was communicating with a spaceship in orbit. Although I would expect the person would communicate by pressing on the broach pinned to her dress requesting to be beamed up.

 

[zerospeaks]

I found out what it was guys.
http://bttf.wikia.com/wiki/File:Docwalkietalkie.jpg


I started this same thread in science and mathmatics in hopes that it would become a "is TT possible" thread. Not knowing that this thread existed.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=189866

 

[Audible Click]

Obviously, the person filmed was Captain Kirk who was trapped, in disguise, in 1928. He's holding his communicator and begging to be beamed up because his girdle is way too tight.

 

[Robert Oz]

Unbelievable, that the time traveller could have chosen that particular date. It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence.

I can read lips and can confirm that the time traveller is in fact saying, "Time circuits on, flux capacitor fluxing."

 

[INRM]

I think the Acousticon is the best explanation. It is weird why she is talking, but the ear-piece matches the Acousticon, and the rectangular thing held is apparently the battery.

 

[FattyCatty]

I think the Acousticon is the best explanation. It is weird why she is talking, but the ear-piece matches the Acousticon, and the rectangular thing held is apparently the battery.

I'm saying nothing new here, but I did a rare reaction post on this the other day. It has to be shameless viral marketing IMO.

http://bshistorian.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/wheres-she-hiding-the-flux-capacitor/

I think the Lutz Ferrando Ear Trumpet and Etui from Big Les looks like a better bet. phisick.com/a7et82lutz.htm

 

[geni]

Eh if you dig through enough old photos you will run into stuff that sort of looks like time travel if you don't think about it too much. For example from 1941:

taken from http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm_v2.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000470&hs=0&rd=117666#

 

[bookitty]

Eh if you dig through enough old photos you will run into stuff that sort of looks like time travel if you don't think about it too much. For example from 1941:

taken from http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm_v2.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000470&hs=0&rd=117666#

Wow. That really does play tricks with the mind for a moment. Awesome example. Thanks!

 

[Sledge]

This isn't even a new idea. The film Timestalkers is a time travel flick based around someone from the future going back in time to the 1880s, but taking a Colt Python with him. A historian in the 1980s finds the picture in a trunk of old West junk and hypothesises the existance of time travel. Adventure ho!

 

[Azrael 5]

Never mind whats she's holding, look at the size of her feet! Is it even a woman?!

Pretty good footage for 1928,maybe shes looking at cameraman and thinking "Thats a SOny HD -Q V34532 what the fuuuu---"

 

[Mike!]

It's far and away simpler than all the things that have been mentioned so far. The answer is easy. The zebra has gas. As she walks by she's saying, "Somebody light a match!"