cell phone from 1928?

[Guest tx2sturgis]

 

I'm betting its an iphone...but who knows...

 

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/10/28/charlie.chaplin.circus.time.travel/index.html

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3O_qa82RA]YouTube - 1928 Cell Phone?[/ame]

 

[halfwitt]

I saw that video last night. She probably didn't have five bars in 1928 but it's fun to try to figure out what she's doing. Someone suggested a type of hearing aid. I like to think she's saying, "Can you hear me now?"

[Mariner Fan]

It's really hard to see. She could just have a headache and was holding her hand next to her head. Pretty cool though!!

[ThomWill]

just shows that THEY have been amongst us since the black and white days!!! I am sure she was asking for a "beam-up" to get out of those dated clothing.

[hipshot]

Actually , Thom, she's talking to her stock broker about "NEXT YEAR"!

he's telling her BUY,BUY, BUY!!!!

lol

just jt

[Trader]

I figured it was just some dim witted "extra" in an low budget old movie remake.

 

Like having a wrist watch on the gun slinger ....or seeing a jet trail over the prarie in a Western.

[frogmaster]

Are these the same folks who reports UFO.... COME ON FOLKS ever hear of a Hand Held AM/FM Radio???

[hipshot]

Are these the same folks who reports UFO.... COME ON FOLKS ever hear of a Hand Held AM/FM Radio???

 

 

not in 1928!

just jt

[frogmaster]

not in 1928!

just jt

 

1928 EASILY

 

See AM Radio History here: http://jeff560.tripod.com/chrono1.html

 

Can you say google

[Guest tx2sturgis]

Are these the same folks who reports UFO.... COME ON FOLKS ever hear of a Hand Held AM/FM Radio???

 

Handheld? In 1928? Radios back then were at least the size of a microwave oven today.

 

Nah...it hadda be a time traveler. No question.

 

[ThomWill]

Yeah, in addition to being HUGE, it would have been too hot to hold to ones face with all those tubes (19 years before the transistor).

[frogmaster]

not in 1928!

just jt

 

Handheld? In 1928? Radios back then were at least the size of a microwave oven today.

 

Nah...it hadda be a time traveler. No question.

 

 

 

DoH !!!! Good point on size

[frogmaster]

Yeah, in addition to being HUGE, it would have been too hot to hold to ones face with all those tubes (19 years before the transistor).

 

 

DoH!!! Good point on Heat too

[Guest tx2sturgis]

LOL...and a cord...a LONG one!

[Flyinfool]

And you would need a real long extension cord.

It takes a lot of power to keep those tubes hot.

[ThomWill]

So that pretty much seals it... she is a time travelling alien extra with an insider trading problem.

[Guest tx2sturgis]

So that pretty much seals it... she is a time travelling alien extra with an insider trading problem.

 

Yep...only plausible explanation.

 

[hipshot]

So that pretty much seals it... she is a time travelling alien extra with an insider trading problem.

 

NOW ya got it, Thom!

lol

just jt:happy65:

[finfan125]

I heard it was a man playing the part of a woman and he had his hand up to his face to hide it but I don't know who he is talking to.

Could this be where talk to the hand originated.....inquiring minds want to know

 

[friesman]

And you would need a real long extension cord.

It takes a lot of power to keep those tubes hot.

 

I have a 1923 Stromberg Carlson Radio I am selling currently that runs on batteries. Up to 3 people could listen to it at a time. They used headphones to help save battery life. Up here in the farmlands there was no power back then so a lot of the farms used these. My Grandfather used this one for a few years after they moved up here from Nebraska, but it wasnt long before they got power. But ya sure couldnt carry it next to your ear...lol

 

http://www.usedregina.com/classified-ad/1923-Stromberg-Carlton-Neutrodyne-Receiver_13428838

 

Brian

[steamer]

No one has hit on the obvious.It's the producers wife coming out of Chaplins dressing room.she realizes she's on film,puts her hand to her face to hide ,and knows she's been busted.If you watch her lips you can just make out, S#!T I'M SCREWED!:rotfl::rotfl: