Dropastone
Well-Known Member
Okay, I'm not saying I believe this to be true. I just thought it was something interesting to talk about.
This may be the most bizarre story youll read all week.Irish filmmaker George Clarke made a startling discovery while watching his DVD copy of Charlie Chaplins 1928 film The Circus.
As he screened DVD extra footage of the movies Hollywood premiere at Graumans Chinese Theatre, Clarke caught the image of what appears to be a stocky old woman chatting on a cell phone. The black-and-white scene is peculiar, to say the least, if only for the obvious reason that the mobile phone wasnt invented until the early 70s.
In the footage, the woman appears in frame with her hand to her ear and her mouth moving; she crosses the screen and turns, happily chatting as the scene cross-fades. The eerie old lady clearly has something in her hand and seeing as how the woman is alone she appears to be talking into or at it.
Clarke half-jokingly muses that the footage has captured a time traveler, and even goes as far surmising that the old lady in the film is, in fact, a man in disguise. He is also pretty certain that the item in this persons hand is, without a doubt, a cell phone.
The stumped filmmaker took to YouTube looking for help in explaining this unexplainable image and the video eventually fell into the hands of film critic Roger Ebert, who posted it on his blog. Check out the video below and feel free to skip Clarkes explanation and go right to the eerie footage at the 2:40 mark:
So, what do you think? Is this person an undercover time-traveler sent back to 1928 to attend a Charlie Chaplin premiere? And, more importantly, if this person is, indeed, talking on a cell phone who are they talking to?
Here's the link to check out the video.
http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/reelnews/6358892/charliechaplinfilmrevealscellphonetimetraveler/
This may be the most bizarre story youll read all week.Irish filmmaker George Clarke made a startling discovery while watching his DVD copy of Charlie Chaplins 1928 film The Circus.
As he screened DVD extra footage of the movies Hollywood premiere at Graumans Chinese Theatre, Clarke caught the image of what appears to be a stocky old woman chatting on a cell phone. The black-and-white scene is peculiar, to say the least, if only for the obvious reason that the mobile phone wasnt invented until the early 70s.
In the footage, the woman appears in frame with her hand to her ear and her mouth moving; she crosses the screen and turns, happily chatting as the scene cross-fades. The eerie old lady clearly has something in her hand and seeing as how the woman is alone she appears to be talking into or at it.
Clarke half-jokingly muses that the footage has captured a time traveler, and even goes as far surmising that the old lady in the film is, in fact, a man in disguise. He is also pretty certain that the item in this persons hand is, without a doubt, a cell phone.
The stumped filmmaker took to YouTube looking for help in explaining this unexplainable image and the video eventually fell into the hands of film critic Roger Ebert, who posted it on his blog. Check out the video below and feel free to skip Clarkes explanation and go right to the eerie footage at the 2:40 mark:
So, what do you think? Is this person an undercover time-traveler sent back to 1928 to attend a Charlie Chaplin premiere? And, more importantly, if this person is, indeed, talking on a cell phone who are they talking to?
Here's the link to check out the video.
http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/reelnews/6358892/charliechaplinfilmrevealscellphonetimetraveler/
