Time traveller caught on 1928 film?

[The Orange Seagull]

Well what do you think of this then?

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/10/28/12022/charlie_chaplin_and_the_mobile_phone_riddle

 

[Everest]

I saw that next week

 

[Wilko]

Interesting, I like stuff like that

 

[Biscuit]

It's a Lutz Ferrando Ear Trumpet.

Lutz Ferrando Ear Trumpet and Etui - Medical Antique

 

[Nibble]

Biscuits explanation seems most likely, strange she is talking into it though, perhaps testing it out?

 

[Stoo82]

It's a Lutz Ferrando Ear Trumpet.

Lutz Ferrando Ear Trumpet and Etui - Medical Antique

and for the sake of argument, who is she talking to?

 

[Biscuit]

and for the sake of argument, who is she talking to?

Herself/himself.

S/he has seen the camera and just said 'f***' or 'shit'.

Doesn't look like more than one syllable to me.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

It's a Lutz Ferrando Ear Trumpet.

Lutz Ferrando Ear Trumpet and Etui - Medical Antique

It is indeed.

 

[The Orange Seagull]

and for the sake of argument, who is she talking to?

Good point considering that it was about six decades before there was a cellphone network

 

[Biscuit]

Good point considering that it was about six decades before there was a cellphone network

Or a BLOODY MACHINE.

 

[MrShaun15]

lol

 

[Gary Leeds]

Siemens Hearing Instruments - Our History

 

[gripper stebson]

It is weird!

However the best thing he says is:

"It is not an AM/FM radio, cos obviously it’s 1928"

Yep must be a mobile then!

 

[Billy the Fish]

If it was a time traveller why would they have a 20th/21st century communication device when we know time travel hasn't been invented yet. They'd have something way more advanced than a bloody mobile phone.

 

[chez]

All I could see was someone with a hat on scratching their head!!

 

[Nibble]

It was interesting from the written blurb I wanted to watch it but common sense tells anyone with a scrape of brain that it could not possibly be a mobile. And that tedious bog trotter who introduces it by repeating the same thing for 4 mins before actually showing the bloody clip which he then proceeds to play over and over for 4 mins while repeating the same dross he harped on a bout for the first four minutes. "Is it a time traveller"? No. It isn't. You. Daft. Mick. Twat.

 

[Cian]

No. It isn't. You. Daft. Mick. Twat.

Belfast. One of yours, sorry.

 

[Nibble]

The last time I checked Belfast was in Ireland. Well it was when I lived there. Or is Mick only a referance to the Republicans?

 

[Cian]

I would imagine a "George Clarke" living in the UK wouldn't necessarily be too impressed with being called Irish.

 

[Nibble]

Depends on whether you view the country in a political sense or a geographic sense. I stick to geography myself but that's a whole other topic.

P.S it is most definately not a mobile phone. The main clue is it being made in 1928.