[78-L] 1928 Charlie Chaplin film - extra has a cell phone???

[Jeff Lichtman]

>http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/10/whaaa-1928-charlie-chaplin-film-has-a-cell-phone-in-it
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>Can anyone explain this? I can't.
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>Cary Ginell

I don't think it's so mysterious. There's a woman holding her hand to 
the side of her head. There may be something in her hand. We've been 
conditioned to interpret this image as someone talking on a mobile 
phone. Since there were no mobile phones in 1928, she had some other 
reason for holding her hand by the side of her head. We don't have 
enough information to figure out why she is doing this. On a 
different web site I saw someone suggest she was holding a hearing 
aid such as this one:

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm

I believe in Occam's razor. In this case, the idea that the woman is 
a time traveler who brought a cell phone with her is *far* from the 
simplest explanation.


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