Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film

Is there a time traveller in the footage included with the DVD release of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film, The Circus? There is no other way to explain this footage of a woman talking on her cell phone phone in the opening scene.

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  • dollypartonwig thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • How many old woman do you know that actually know how to use a cell phone?

    jessicab24
    a year ago
  • I think we've all forgotten that even if this lady did come from the future and had a cell phone, there would have been no cell phone towers or satellites for her phone to work. :( Myth BUSTED

    michaelp19
    a year ago
  • melissah9 thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is Old  about a year ago
  • Nether thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • jamalcool thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is Geeky, OMG & WTF  about a year ago
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  • Esther S. thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • thegreatmonsterpirate thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • Seriously!!! There is no such thing as time travel, im sure there is a logical explanation for this. Scientist have just worked out the quantum physics of how light and speed and sound work…!!!??

    bekd
    a year ago
  • nikkir thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • JEdoubleSSSS thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • Finally, proof that time travel is possible! It does beg the question of which carrier she was using though - “Can you hear me now?”

    davids27
    a year ago
  • davids27 thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • Marcus K. thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is OMG  about a year ago
  • UliaJay thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • I agree with the old lady “Oh dear in thinking” pose. maybe she has a toothache? Or is holding a hand warmer to her cheek. That big coat make me think its pretty cold there.

    MEnMyArrow
    a year ago
  • carolina thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is OMG  about a year ago
  • weirds me out

    alesandran
    a year ago
  • federicor   Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin...  about a year ago
  • yes, the only plausible explanation is that she's a time traveler with a cell phone. there's no way she's just an old woman with a toothache talking to the man in front of her.

    Heihachi Mishima
    a year ago
  • kielbasa thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
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  • Falk L. thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF & OMG  about a year ago
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  • Objection! That was… objectionable!

    Mock Turtle
    a year ago
  • Mock Turtle thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is OMG & WTF  about a year ago
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  • It's one of these http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm

    Jeremy D.
    a year ago
  • Erika   Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... and thinks it’s WTF  about a year ago
  • The woman is probably hold an icepack because she has a toothache.

    snoopy
    a year ago
  • My guess is that she was talking to the man in front, who must be her husband cause he's obviously paying attention (LOL)… and she's doing that classic old lady talking thing holding her hand to her face in an “Oh My!” kind of way… like Aunt Bea used to always do on Andy Griffith…

    Jennifer P.
    a year ago
  • annalizfell thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
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  • L00ps thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is LOL & OMG  about a year ago
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  • Mike P. thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • Brandon S.   Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... and thinks it’s OMG, WTF & LOL  about a year ago
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  • sergios thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
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  • Matt Harate thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • Stella thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • Believing that (s)he is a time-traveler talking on a cell phone forces one to imagine a time in which we have conquered the very quantum nature of matter and bent the space-time continuum to our will but are still talking on awkward squares of plastic.  Plus, if it were an iPhone 4 (s)he's holding, the way (s)he's holding it there's no way she'd be getting reception.

    Ryan G.
    a year ago
  • Joyce B. thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • Derek thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is WTF  about a year ago
  • Sugamnomis
    a year ago
  • Cartoonera thinks Cell Phone Spotted In Charlie Chaplin... is Old  about a year ago
  • It's a shapeshifter from Fringe!

    Whitney Lou
    a year ago
  • I find it interesting that a video stating “there is no other way to explain…” features a zebra right off the bat. Acom's Razor anybody? No? Ok.

    jsamuels
    a year ago
  • I viewed the clip with the intent of debunking this claim…but I'm stumped…that looks like a person on a cell phone plain as day. Did they have hand held voice recorders then? I think that's a capital NO.  I'm stumped.

    A. P.
    a year ago
  • Look at the size of those feet! That's a maaan, baby.

    oOo
    a year ago
  • Interesting how she tuns to the camera at the very end, almost like a, “hey BuzzFeed, check me out in a Chaplin flick.”

    Lefty
    a year ago
  • This is retarded. Who would she be speaking with? No other cell phones in that period. How would it work? No cell towers. Why am I even writing this? This video is retarded.

    Cadavaler
    a year ago
  • I'm going to guess it was an ear horn or something like that. Or time traveler. Sure. Why not?

    Medea Maimonides
    a year ago

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