Women on a mobile phone in 1928 Charlie Chaplin Film

[KillerHERTZ]

Check around 20-22 sec's in, she appears to be talking to it aswell...

Khz reminds viewers that no phone masts were up in the 1920s

On the DVD extras for Charlie Chaplin's 'The Circus', a woman is spotted in the background at the movie's premiere in 1928 and appears to be talking on a mobile phone.
Stunned by what he saw, Irish filmmaker George Clarke consulted experts on his find, and has since posted it on YouTube. He claims that the video has not been tampered with in any way.

The footage does seem to show a lady nattering on a mobile phone, but if you thought your phone reception was bad at normal times, we hate to think what it would have been like in the ‘20s.

Cynics have scoffed at the footage, asking, if you were a time traveller, would you openly show off the amazing gadget? Others have asked why you would go to a Chaplin premiere if you could go back to any point in time?

Clarke replied, "Who says the person in question went back to see the Chaplin premiere? How about, the person went back to an earlier period and got stuck there or was in town doing something else and just happened to stroll on by."

Odd eh?

[franey]

Its an early transistor radio she is listening to and singing along. Quite how she did that in a silent movie though is beyond me

[MOCAŠ]

Originally Posted by franey

Its an early transistor radio she is listening to and singing along. Quite how she did that in a silent movie though is beyond me

She's not in the film, she's attending (or walking past) the cinema where it was being premiered.

Personally all I can see against her head is her hand, so who knows what might have been in it.

[markjay]

The idea about it being a time traveller is quite interesting... though her mobile phone would still not have worked in 1928 US!

[Deker]

Well it can't have been an iPhone 4 - holding it like that she'd never get a signal

[markjay]

[Mad4Coupes]

read all the comments on this and I think you will find its fake. The woman appears to have been "grafted" in. Very clever tho.

[dog68]

If you pause it at 1.23, it looks like a man.

[tpwuk]

Lets face it, if this person is a time traveller they will undoubtedly have access to more incredible technology than we have today. So what's not to say this person firstly went into the future and obtained some kind of communicator which works accross multiple time dimensions?

Alternatively, it could just be a clinically insane person talking to a banana!

[Mr E]

Originally Posted by franey

Its an early transistor radio she is listening to and singing along. Quite how she did that in a silent movie though is beyond me

First consumer transistor radios didn't hit the market until 1954 (in the US).

Transistors were "invented" (or at least the patents files) in the late '40s - 1947 IIRC - and Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley shared the Nobel Physics prize in the mid 50's for the discovery.

[Mr E]

How about this as the answer?

[franey]

Originally Posted by MOCAŠ

She's not in the film, she's attending (or walking past) the cinema where it was being premiered.

Personally all I can see against her head is her hand, so who knows what might have been in it.

......Wasn't serious!!

[veilside_rick]

i think if the government had time travel technology, sending some one back to a Charlie Chaplin film would be the last place on there destination list.
its got to be a layover fake

[renault12ts]

Just realised I have met George Clarke. My daughter has worked for him on a couple of horror films. Its a small world. Since he posted this on U tube it has had millions of hits and been on telly around the world... still think she is scratching her ear.

[Meldrew2]

The first mobile phone was invented in 1927.

Sadly, it was no use until the second mobile phone was invented in the 1980s...