'Time Traveler' Caught In 1928 Charlie Chaplin Film? (VIDEO)

The Internet is abuzz this morning with talk of time travel - and it has nothing to do with the 25th anniversary of "Back To The Future" this week. Previously unreleased footage from Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film "The Circus" has everyone talking due to what looks like a woman talking on a cell phone in the background.

The description on this YouTube video (which shows the scene normally and magnified) also lists "ear trumpet" and "pocket model carbon microphone" as possibilities. However, there's also a horse painted to look like a zebra in this scene, so we're not going to bet that everything is as it seems. (Via Buzzfeed)

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[usmc71]

05:53 PM on 11/14/2010

This person to me could be talking to a space ship hovering above earth, breaking protocol. The spaceship itself is from that time and from another world or the ship has traveled through time via a Worm Hole. Or just a little old lady with ear trumpet.

[ltague]

02:28 PM on 11/07/2010

Maybe she has an earache & is holding a wrapped icepack on her ear and her moving mouth is saying "OUCH! My ear hurts!".

[Vroomfondel]

04:59 PM on 11/01/2010

Someone get Tom Cruise on the phone, stat. He'll straighten this all out.

[american-dolt]

03:55 PM on 11/01/2010

And the cell phone microwave towers are where exactly?

[redarmyzombie]

02:59 AM on 11/02/2010

"Kirk to enterprise..."

[amdezurik]

03:22 PM on 11/01/2010

uh, looks to me more like a guy dressed as a woman trying to hold the wig on...

[ltague]

02:29 PM on 11/07/2010

It DID look like a guy, didn't it?

[speedntktz]

02:29 PM on 11/01/2010

"Can you hear me now?" No because it's a Silent Movie.

[jhank]

09:29 AM on 11/01/2010

Now, if she was wearing Nikes, that would be something.

[AlexandriaHeather]

08:26 AM on 11/01/2010

Look. I've got no issue with time travel.
But why are we still talking about this?
Replace this link with something about
tachyons or dr. who.

[soundping]

07:26 AM on 11/01/2010

It's a hearing aid from that time.
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=WwTbUfaPc­Lo

[soundping]

07:30 AM on 11/01/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwTbUfaPcLo&feature=player_embedded
This link works better.

[PathofTotality]

03:27 PM on 11/01/2010

I was getting ready to ask / find out when the first transistor radio was mass produced but I like this a little better.

[Brian Gavin]

06:27 AM on 11/01/2010

She has the iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 doesn't need a cellular network, and comes with iTime Apple's new time traveling app. Unfortunately she went back to stop the Internet from ever happening, so none of you are reading this post now.

[No1 ILoveLucyFan]

01:45 PM on 11/01/2010

In which case, I'm not replying to your message.

[lulutin]

03:28 AM on 11/01/2010

Perhaps it is helpful to say that a cellphone doesn't work without relays and such. So if it was some communication device it wasn't a cellphone.. more like a mini-talkie-walkie..

[TreetopFlyer]

01:16 AM on 11/01/2010

As if seeing is believing. It's the PT Barnum Effect - and you just happen to be coming along at the right time.

[Hapakanaka]

05:11 PM on 10/31/2010

It's a Dr. Who super cell phone. It can make calls through time and space....lol

[salamtims]

05:00 PM on 10/31/2010

Has anyone thought to ask what good a cell phone would be without cell towers and a wireless network? To whom would this person be speaking?

[cowman]

05:17 PM on 10/31/2010

My first thought

[ponchoparadise]

11:50 PM on 10/31/2010

If someone is able to travel through time what makes you think they will be limited by our
current technology?

[johnmorgan]

01:35 PM on 11/01/2010

He would indeed be limited by scientific reality. I don't see any way telephone signals can be sent to another time.

[S Pesticide]

05:12 AM on 11/02/2010

haha awesome! Exactly

[Grokenspiel]

03:16 PM on 10/31/2010

"Can you hear me now?"

[quixoto]

07:10 AM on 11/01/2010

No! I'm in 1928.