In Charlie Chaplin's movie "The Circus", it was recently shown that a woman in a part of the film was holding something near her head, much like a cell phone, and talking near the end of the clip she is in. Following this, people have claimed that she is a time traveler from some present or future time, and it seems people believe it. First, the video. Now, my reasons why it is not a time traveler.
1. The most obvious part is where there's a guy before the clip is even shown, giving his films and movie company a little poke from the promotion stick. A bit odd, seeing that a large chunk of the video only serves to hear him talk.
2. Under the assumption that she is holding a cell phone, the most obvious thing to ask is "How is she getting reception?" Not many cell phone towers in 1928.
3. Now on to the part about why it isn't a cell phone she's holding. At first, I had to get an explanation from someone who believed it on how it looked like a cell phone in her hand. From what I was told, the shadows of her hand and the shine on her hair was supposed to be a cell phone.
4. Granted, the way she is holding her hand seems to say she's holding something, and since we in the cell-phone era automatically see that gesture as holding a cell phone. But when she turns her head toward the camera, it seems her hand is empty. I'm sure people are saying it must be invisible or something.
5. One thing that I was told when watching the video made it so I couldn't go back to seeing it as a cell phone was the sentence "She's itching her head." Not much to say here, it's more like seeing through an optical illusion than solving a problem.
All that remains that I can say about the video is speculation on how this video impacts the profits of the company.
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