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Charlie Chaplin movie time traveller using a hearing aid

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Read more: Belfast filmmaker’s YouTube video finds cell phone mystery in 1928 Charlie Chaplin clip

Speculation has been rampant. Perhaps the woman is simply mad and talking happily to herself or perhaps she really is from the future

Belfast filmmaker, George Clarke's, video has gone viral and he still believes that a time traveler is the most likely explanation for the strange figure, who appears to be speaking on a cellphone in Charlie Chaplin's 1928 "The Circus" footage. 

However people, amongst the millions who have seen the video, believe that this woman is actually using a hearing aid. Back in 1924 Siemens invented a hearing aid that was a "compact, pocket sized carbon microphone/amplifier device." Look under history on their website and see the proof.

Stranger things have happened...unlike time travelers.


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wgman062 | Nov 04, 2010, 04:51 PM EDT
But if she's a time traveler who's gone back to 1928, who is she talking to? Even if there were another time traveler back there with her with another cell phone, there were no cell phone towers. A time traveler might have a phone with them in 1928, but it would be a useless piece of plastic and electronics.

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derrymarch | Oct 31, 2010, 09:28 AM EDT
Fun!

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kaydog1 | Oct 29, 2010, 04:44 PM EDT
I don't see anyone around her, so how could it be a hearing aide, since there's no one she's talking to? At the same time, I have seen a movie or two about time travelers, so I know what I'm talking about here. Each of the characters in the movies were always very attractive, not at all stout or dowdy. I don't think it was even possible in the movie to send unattractive or dowdy people through time - something to do with the science of it all. I suppose it's possible that she went through a time portal earlier in her life, when she was better looking, and just stayed put, but then how is her cell phone still holding a charge after long enough for her to get chunky? My own razor phone won't hold a charge anymore, and I'm still really good looking, so it doesn't actually jibe with that theory. All this science stuff is giving me a bit of a headache. I'm wondering,what do the other scientists think?

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