Charlie Chaplin Movie’s Cellular phone-Using Time Traveler Debunked? [Video]

Last week, the net was captivated by a Charlie Chaplin movie outtake which looked as if it would show an additional chatting on a cellular phone as she walked during the shot. Turns out it was probably just an old-fashioned hearing aid.

Irish filmmaker George Clarke, the dude within the clip above who was really into the basis of the girl being a time traveler, apparently didn’t talk over with many hearing experts-a couple of have suggested that the thing the woman is holding is likely an ear trumpet, essentially old-time analog hearing aid.

LiveScience got the news:

” As which you can tell from these, old-fashioned mechanical or resonating hearing aids were not necessarily long and rounded,” said Philip Skroska, an archivist at the Bernard Becker Medical Library of Washington University in St. Louis. ” Short, compact rectangular forms were commonplace.”

19th-century resonator hearing aids along with ear trumpets were still made in large numbers well into the first decades of the twentieth century, Skroska explained, and the essential designs didn’t change much except incorporating newer, plastic-like materials.

” Besides, I’d expect this woman to be over 50 years old, so using a late 19th century design in 1928 does not be a stretch I feel,” Skroska said.

OK, fine. Or perhaps it was a time traveler from the long run using an antique ear trumpet… [ LiveScience via FilmDrunk ]

Source

This post is tagged: becker medical library, bernard becker medical, bernard becker medical library, charlie Chaplin, twentieth century, washington university in st louis