I found this little article when I logged into Instant Messenger today, it appears that there is footage in a Charlie Chapman film of what appears to be a woman talking on a cell phone. The question arises then, is this some sort of time traveler who just happened to walk in front of the camera, some crazy person, or something totally logical that is easily explained by more "normal" thinking?

The Article.

Wow... probably a hearing aide or something. Very spooky though

But I can tell you what it ain't!

Its not a hearing aid. In 1928 they were still using sound horns. The patent for the first electric hearing aid wasn't submitted until 1-10-1934 by Albert Einstein.

It wasn't a transistor radio. In 1928 people were still using tube radios that were as big as our TVs were in the early '80s. In fact the first commercialized radio (Regency and Texas Instrument's TR1) wasn't put out for sale until 1954.

I believe it is a camera trick, in fact I can create the same illusion of someone using out of time technology in a classic film.

notice it is not a continuous shot from the dvd menu to his "time traveler" footage. I saw the original video, the British guy shows you the dvd, and then shows you that he is accessing the "documentary" in the dvd menu but breaks visual to focus on him again to explain something then goes back to his footage to show you the woman/man time traveler using what looks like a cell phone. During that cutaway, he could have inserted doctored footage. he even admits that he makes movies.

Suggesting that somebody travelled back in time to star in a Chaplin film is utterly ridiculous! Obviously, it was Chaplin himself who travelled to the future to shoot his film.

All I see is someone holding their collar up, either to block the heavy lights they used then or prehaps the wind.

..has very little to do with infinity and jelly donuts.

So, my grandma was talking to me on her cell phone from 1928... weirder things have happened.

Why would a time traveler use a cell phone? Hello, no cell towers?

It is a star trek communicator.

This makes more sense to me. If we're going to be silly, let's be realistically silly.

The arguments that a cell phone would not work without a cell tower is easily brushed aside if you consider that a future society with time travel capabilities is also likely to have portable communication that does not require a tower but has a strong enough transmitter inside to do away with the need of cell towers, relays, and repeaters. Just a thought...

Right, so not a cell phone, but something that looks like it?

Perhaps the futuristic society got some details wrong when attempting to camoflauge their equipment. Much like the way that Futurama often garbles 21st century Earth.

Meh, so we missed the cell phone by a few decades, who will notice?

...the "cell tower" was actually hidden under that super-groovy hat she was wearing.

It amazes me that after so many suggestions, no one has delivered the most credible theory: that the time traveller is actually our own Grugg! Unlike the others, there are no holes in this one.

Whoa... You mean Grugg is really a woman from the future trapped in the past??????????????? Knarly man

Actually, Grugg has admitted to far more shocking statements in the past.