Chaplin Time Traveler

I just caught wind of this viral video today and thought it was very curious if nothing more than a flight of fancy. Here’s a news article talking about it. Has any one else seen this? What do you think of it?

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I’m liable to think it’s just some kind of forgotten listening or tune-playing device.

Curious. I think it’s too early for a compact radio (which would explain the talking/singing.) Possibly an early hearing aid, but then why talk? Naturally a time-traveller with a cellphone is right out, since there’d be no network.

I’m stumped.

IMHO I think she is holding an icepack against a sore tooth…

Possible, but again, why the talking?

Unless she’s just working her jaw against the pain?

I see elderly women talking to themselves all the time:D, the really scary ones though are the ones having entire conversations…:eek:

It is a 1924 Sieman’s hearing aid, here is an article discussing it with appropriate links…

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5949564/siemens_1924_hearing_aid_debunks_charlie.html

Yeah, that cropped up earlier, but why is she talking and not just listening?

I do not believe she is talking, I think she is moving her lips as she is forming thoughts in her head. Or… what is also quite probable, since it is a movie premiere; there is music playing outside during the opening festivities and she is moving her lips to the lyrics of the music playing!:slight_smile:

I think she’s trying to send us a message!

Seriously, I try not to be judgmental, but this is just the dumbest thing ever.

That said, there are reports of a teenager from the 1950s, I think he was named Calvin Klein, who had inexplicable technology for the time. He later disappeared mysteriously.

To quote Biff actor Tom Wilson, “It’s a movie.”

This is what kills me about the sensationalist articles regarding the footage. There aren’t any networks back then, so it would be totally useless to use a cell phone.

If it was a real time traveler, the time rangers would have gotten there, shooed her to another area to not get filmed, and we’d never see it. Retroactively.

Time rangers are like park rangers–they keep the tourists from getting eaten by the wildlife and vica-versa.

Maybe it was this guy in drag…! :smiley:

That’s why it’s obviously a communicator.

I mean how else would she contact the ship…DUUUHHHH!!! :smiley:

seriously tho…it probably is a hearing aid…and she is probably talking to herself…so says the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations

Nothing to see here, …move along please… come on, move along, nothing to see here.

Well of course it’s a cell phone that has been sonic’ed by The Doctor so it would work anywhere in any time even without a cellular network.