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An 82-year-old film clip from a Charlie Chaplin movie premiere that appears to show a woman talking on a mobile phone has baffled movie buffs and caused an online sensation.

George Clarke, a film festival organiser from Belfast, claims to have discovered the puzzling vision, shot in 1928, on a Charlie Chaplin DVD.

Mr Clarke said he studied the black-and-white film and sent it to his colleagues before uploading the scene to YouTube.

The video clip shows a woman dressed in a dark cloak and hat walking past a sign for Charlie Chaplin's film "The Circus."

She appears to be speaking into a device that looks remarkably like a mobile phone.

Mr Clarke said there was no rational explanation for the clip.

"Right now the only conclusion I can come to, which sounds absolutely ridiculous I'm sure to some people, but it's a time traveler," he said.

"It's kind of strange, you can't explain it."

Hundreds of people have commented on Clarke's YouTube video, which has gone viral.

Some have dismissed the clip as a fake, while others have put forward their own explanations as to what is happening in the video.

One popular theory is that the woman is using a 1920s-era hearing aid.  

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Have you seen the clip, whatd you think of it?

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Originally Posted by Danny Aston:
Have you seen the clip, whatd you think of it?

clip or it didn't happen

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You cannot see ****.  She could have been doing anything with her hand up to her ear.  Besides, a cell phone would not work back then because there was no network to support it.  Also, if there is technology in the future to transmit data through time, I would assume it would be far more advanced than a device you had to hold up to your ear.

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Ok, if someone time traveled back to the 20's, who the hell would they have to call on a cell phone?

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It obviously isnt a woman but in fact a man in drag and notice also that right at the end of the clip, at nearly exactly 4:12  in the vid,his thumb begins to relax as if he's not holding anything at all but merely putting his hand up to avoid being seen.

Thie disguise and the deliberate hiding  leaves  me to conclude that the person's presence wasnt as an accidental passerby, but just merely someone close to the producers, maybe even someone famous, who  wanted to be in the movie, but for whatever reason couldnt risk identification.

That sort of thing occurred in the early days more often than was widely known and alot more often than time travellers returning.

But ssure of course if a time machine were ever  invented it would be for the great need to go back to 1920's Hollywood to make a cameo in a Chaplin flick, rather than say to the same time in Berlin and strangle a failed art student named Adolf.

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Originally Posted by Rory Kiser:
Ok, if someone time traveled back to the 20's, who the hell would they have to call on a cell phone?

Yeah my thoughts exactly, and wouldn't someone else in the video wonder what the **** they were doing? Even if it was a cell phone would that person really be stupid enough to use it in front of hundreds of people who have no idea what the **** a cell phone is?

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This is actually pretty cool to watch.

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Wow! That's weird...

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Both of these are way too cool!!  DO WANT one of those Einstein heads!

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LOL! Its John Titor  in drag XD

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Originally Posted by Danny Aston:
It obviously isnt a woman but in fact a man in drag and notice also that right at the end of the clip, at nearly exactly 4:12  in the vid,his thumb begins to relax as if he's not holding anything at all but merely putting his hand up to avoid being seen.

Thie disguise and the deliberate hiding  leaves  me to conclude that the person's presence wasnt as an accidental passerby, but just merely someone close to the producers, maybe even someone famous, who  wanted to be in the movie, but for whatever reason couldnt risk identification.

That sort of thing occurred in the early days more often than was widely known and alot more often than time travellers returning.

But ssure of course if a time machine were ever  invented it would be for the great need to go back to 1920's Hollywood to make a cameo in a Chaplin flick, rather than say to the same time in Berlin and strangle a failed art student named Adolf.

this is the short man in in drag hiding his face