Marshall and the Movies

Sorry I missed this whole saga…

Apparently even in 2010, we can still believe that time travel existed back in the 1920s.  There has been a huge controversy over what looks like a cell phone in someone’s ear in 1928 at the premiere of a Charlie Chaplin movie.

Check out this Cinematical expose:

“It’s a wacky theory hatched by filmmaker George Clark: a person from the future visited the premiere of the Chaplin classic. The evidence? Bonus footage on the DVD, showing what appears to be an old woman (or, as Clark suggests, a man in drag) strolling toward the premiere while talking on a cellular phone. Seeing that the first cell phones weren’t invented for, oh, another fifty-some-odd years, this is it, definitive proof that there are time travelers among us!”

Turns out enough Americans were stupid enough to believe that she might be holding a cell phone that Live Science dedicated some time to it.  If you really want to know that it’s just an ear trumpet, something deaf people used to help their hearing, feel free to spend 9 minutes of your life watching this video:

But honestly, is this not ridiculous?  I don’t really buy into conspiracy theories, and this is one of the most ridiculous I’ve ever heard.