Last Saturday we attended Dale Chasse's 50th Birthday party at the Captain's Galley in Old Orchard. Everyone had a lot of fun - Dale is just a great guy, with lots of friends.
It came to pass during the evening that mention was made of an apparent "time traveler" spotted in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film, "The Circus". In it, someone in the public crowd was caught walking past the camera, apparently talking into a cellphone.
The film is real, and has been authenticated. For those of you who expressed interest in seeing it, you can view it here...
A note here - the cellphone would be 70 years away. The transistor radio 20 years into the future. Walkie-talkies - 10 years into the future. And hand-held tape recorders were 40 years away.
Watch closely, not only the slo-mo and close-ups, but also the feet of the individual. And note that the person does seem to be trying to hide themselves by dressing in rather strange and heavy clothing - considering everyone else in the film is dressed in summer attire.
I'm not saying I'm convinced - but it certainly does raise questions!
And no, it is not Sarah Palin reading crib notes on her hand :o)
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One thought was a hearing aid, but the man seems to be talking. They said, he could be talking to test the hearing aid.
As to it being a hearing aid test, that is possible, but that begs the questions: 1) why the configuration of the persons fingers, as if grasping something the size of a cellphone, and 2) upon close inspection, what appears to be a flat, black cellphone-like object in the hand when the person turns toward the camera. Just food for thought...
Upon further research, it could not be a hearing aid. It seems A. Edwin Steven invented the first "wearable" hearing aid, weighing 2.5 pounds (1.1 kg), in 1935.
This film was made in 1928, 7 years earlier...
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