'Time-Traveller' caught on Charlie Chaplin film!
A friend at work told me about the following story and I thought he was winding me up. A quick google pulled up this story in the Daily Mail so it must be true, right?[;)]
Dear, oh dear, oh dear[:|]
As I posted in reply to someone who sent a Tweet about one of these stories yesterday, it's more likely 'she' is using an early C20th pocketable ear-trumpet such as this
And of course it being a silent movie, we have no idea whether she is talking to herself, to the person in front, to the director...
Clare Newsome:Yawn, old news...
If you'd been following us on Twitter, you would have seen us 'solve' this 'mystery' on Wednesday: here's the answer.
Twitter? Isn't that one of those evil things like Facebook? Ewww nooooo!
Having watched the clip a few times it is evident me that the 'woman' is a man. Check the gait and the size of the shoes (compare to the feet of the man in front.)
The hand held up is possibly to help obscure a masculine hairstyle or facial features.
I think it looks like it could be someone in the technical crew who is not only walking across the set but giving verbal directions and filling in as a female extra too.
These things were shot quickly and on a tight budget and 1928 audiences were not able to freeze frame these things to notice anything amiss with an extra in frame for a few seconds.
So you think we'll find it's a time-travelling female impersonator with an iPhone fixation?
Aha! We have a culprit...
You ain't getting one past Chebby 
Even if it was a time traveller, how the hell is he/she going to get a signal 90 years in the past? I can't even get one on a Virgin Pendalino.
FrankHarveyHiFi:You ain't getting one past Chebby
Well on the flip side of that, if you had just negotiated time travel surely solving this little phone problem would be achievable?
Just listen to us, any vacancies at the Mail I wonder?
Well if Orange can produce some sort of time portal so I can call myself back when I was 12, I'll be more than happy
FrankHarveyHiFi:Well if Orange can produce some sort of time portal so I can call myself back when I was 12, I'll be more than happy
If I could call myself at 12 years old it would be on something like this beauty from 1992, the Nokia 101:
Nice!
FrankHarveyHiFi:Well if Orange can produce some sort of time portal so I can call myself back when I was 12, I'll be more than happy
Ah, the "I wish I knew then what I know now" chestnut. What advice would you give (or would this be too personal)?
On fairly impersonal note, I'd have to tell my twelve-year-old self that skateboarding in the pitch-black during a power cut is just plain stupid: an act that landed me in hospital for some time requiring a series of operations.
many things! Mostly personal, but I'd keep all the favourite speakers I've ever owned and not sell them!!
A modern day Gray's Sports Almanac would be handy too....
"A modern day Gray's Sports Almanac would be handy too...."
Great Scott!!!
"I'd keep all the favourite speakers I've ever owned and not sell them!!"
I wonder how they'd compare with their modern counterparts? I overcame such sentimentailty a few months back when I finally sold my laserdisc player and 40 discs. I thought it would be a painful separation, but after watching half an hour of the Indiana Jones and the Last Cusade laserdisc on my 42" plasma, I realised the gulf in quality between laserdisc and Blu Ray was vast. Nostalgia can be powerful, but quickly ovecome when directly confronted by reality (this same rule can apply to ex-partners as well)....
I would have saved up all my pocket money and bought nothing but 'special edition' TV programme and film related Corgi and Dinky toys and put them - unopened - in sturdy storage boxes for the next 30 years until something that cost 7/6d could be sold to a middle aged collector for £500 each.
strapped for cash:Nostalgia can be powerful, but quickly ovecome when directly confronted by reality (this same rule can apply to ex-partners as well)....
Cheap and below your usual high standard.
Yawn, old news...
If you'd been following us on Twitter, you would have seen us 'solve' this 'mystery' on Wednesday: here's the answer.
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