Siemens 1924 Hearing Aid Debunks Charlie Chaplin Time Travel Video?
Since filmmaker George Clark posted the video days ago, Internet viewers and bloggers have gotten carried away. Clark found behind-the-scenes DVD footage from Charlie Chaplin's The Circus in which a woman passing by may be talking into something - something that wasn't around in 1928.
Although the Siemens hearing aid was around back then, and may be the actual answer to the mystery, it was easier to say that a time traveler was caught on film. To many, the device the woman was holding almost looked like a cell phone - or, at the least, it was fun to assume that it was.
This theory made the "Charlie Chaplin time travel" video into the YouTube hit of the week, which is now up to over 2.6 million hits. But inevitably, people who weren't time travel buffs took a look at it and presented their own answers to what the woman had.
In all likelihood, the woman may have been trying to hear better, since aids for that were invented in the 1920s. The Siemens 1924 hearing aid is being brought up as the possible brand name, as explained in another YouTube clip.
The video shows a Google search for "1924 hearing amplifier," which took the user to the 1924 Siemens model. A picture of a man using that device appears to resemble how the woman used her device on The Circus set.
If this solves the Charlie Chaplin time travel mystery, it shows how Internet users can both embrace myths and debunk them. But Clark didn't come up with it, although he claims to have tested the video with friends and audiences before making his claim. Yet for all the vetting, the Internet at large debunked him in just a day or two.
Since the Siemens hearing aid explanation has more weight than a time traveler caught on film, it may make the video fade away faster. But it likely has a day or two left on the YouTube headlines before the next viral hit comes along.
Sources
YouTube- "Chaplins Time Traveler"
Washington Post- "The Siemens 1924 hearing aid: Apparently the answer to the Charlie Chaplin time travel mystery"
New York Daily News- "Time traveler caught on film in 1928? Filmmaker claims find in Charlie Chaplin's 'The Circus' DVD"
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Post a CommentWhat do people think about the new Siemens Aquaris Hearing Aids ? Apparently you can use these hearing aids to swim.
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One more point - The "no cell phone towers in 1928" is a ridiculous argument that even those who think the time traveller argument is stupid should immediately dismiss.
Of COURSE it's not a cell phone, and so does not need a tower. It is, to all appearances, a communications device, and if one assumes that an individual can travel in time (for the sake of argument, assume that for a second)why the heck should such individual not be able to communicate forward din time using a device, and why the heck should such an individual need a cell phone tower, of all things?
What's even funnier is that rational people with above room temperature IQ's would believe that an old woman would walk around with a heavy tube filled (transistors not developed until the 1950's, add another 10 years for the first integrated circuits) hearing aid to her ear when there is clearly (watch the video) no one around her to whom she is speaking or listening). And yet, at the end of the clip, she is clearly and animatedly talking after having paused, in the exact same way a modern cell phone user stops for a second to make a point.
oops! just noticed Zander's comment. Pretty much the same as mine, except for one thing. TIME DOES EXIST. And according to the latest studies and theories, it could be that past, present and future all exist on the same level, at the same TIME, creating a substance such as thin vibrations and waves which modern physics is yet to comprehend...
Guys, there were no cellphone towers and stations back then to provide any kind of coverage. Plus, when I went back in time, I didn't find anybody to give a call to.... Imagine yourselves being in the middle of Sahara in present days, with a cellphone (let's say unlocked without any specific provider). Would you be able to call home?
I still belive in the time travel theory...and the cellphone look like a Nokia or Motorola from 2005..... lololololol
Robert
Nice try, but if it some sort of primitive hearing aid/horn...why is she speaking ? Duh... I think it is Captain James Kirk from the USS Enterprise (in drag, of course) trying to communicate with Spock or McCoy on board the ship. "Beam me up, there is no intelligent life down here"
Hello....
There were no cellular transmission poles, switching stations, or any effective infrastructure, not to mention ANY satellites, in the 20's.
a) If it was a time traveller, then they are not using a cellphone.
b) It's not a time traveller.
c) You can't go backwards in time, because TIME does not exist. It is our way of defining a series of events that can be measured.
d) It's not a time traveller from the future.
e) I have better things to do.
f) WTF is wrong with you!
That anyone would think that this is evidence of "Time Travel" is a sad commentary on our society and the absolute buffoons the total media atmosphere that has come into being since the 1990s have turned the post-Baby Boom generations into. No wonder our government is as corrupt as it was in the post-Civil War period, before mass literacy became standard throughout the country. We live in the age of Incoherence!