We covered lots of serious stuff today so here’s some silliness for you guys. Here’s the question being asked all over the interwebs. Did a Woman Travel Through Time to Attend a Charlie Chaplin Premier? Seriously.
Some pretty normally sane movie sites are covering this story like Cinematical and Moviefone as well as dozens of looney tunes sites. Heck, Roger Ebert (is he sane?) even Tweeted about it.
Here’s the story in a nutshell. There’s old footage from a Charlie Chaplin movie premiere where an older woman who may secretly be a man is walking down the street while talking on what may secretly be a cell phone all the way back in 1928.
Check out the vid:
I gotta’ admit that it if I saw someone walking down the street my first thought would be that they were talking on the phone but this seems like kinda’ flimsy evidence to jump to the conclusion of time travel to me but I’m just here to bring you the latest and greatest stories on the google machine. And besides “The Big Lebowski” and “In America,” “Time Bandits” might be my favorite movie of all time.
So…you seeing time travel here?
October 27, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Doug wrote:
Scratch that… I just realized it's an iAnsible and Steve Jobs decided time travelers need to look cool (Grandfather paradox notwithstanding).
🙂 That… was too cool! (*laugh*)
(BTW: Orson Scott Card is waiting for his royalty check…)
October 27, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Here's an idea…
http://hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm
October 28, 2010 at 2:09 am
The person definitely looks to be talking, whether into a device or just to her/himself, I'm not sure.
October 29, 2010 at 4:14 am
It was the beta version of the Farnsworth. They must have been testing it before it was released in 1929 🙂
http://bit.ly/byzY0D
October 29, 2010 at 7:20 am
Assuming the guy is legit… What object is the right size that this woman could pretend was a telephone or some sort of device to communicate with aliens, animals, the otherworld, etc.
Could she have been playing a joke on someone? Was someone tricking her into talking into an object to get her committed? It wasn't hard to get people committed to funny farms in that era.
What was the the Scifi gadgetry du jour?
November 2, 2010 at 12:38 am
let's throw in a space ship and she's talking to Scotty, up in the control center.
November 2, 2010 at 12:40 am
Also, here's a 1928 home-made radio: http://vintageradio.me.uk/magazinecvr/bright.htm
Is she singing along?