The Charlie Chaplin/Cell Phone Video

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/29/10 at 11:33pm

So while I think this whole thing is very interesting

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20020951-10391698.html

My question to the filmmaker who thinks she's a time traveller is - Who the hell would she be talking to? And how would she get service? Inquiring minds really want to know.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/29/10 at 11:40pm

Doesn't string theory say that when we steal a glance of somebody we know on the street and then remember they're dead and we look back and they're gone, we're seeing an overlap of different "rivers of time"? We really did see them?

To me it's pretty clear. The time traveller is a man talking on a cellphone nowadays but the river of time merged in such a way that he is astrophysically superimposed (kind of like cosmic Photoshop) into the clothes of a large woman of that era,

What else could it be?

Updated On: 10/29/10 at 11:40 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/29/10 at 11:51pm

I have no idea. I'm at a loss with the whole thing.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/29/10 at 11:54pm

Its too bad she wasn't on a hoverboard playing Tetris on a gameboy, though.

[Jon]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 12:05am

Several, if not dozens of websites have solved the "mystery". It's a hearing aid.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 12:09am

Thank you, Namo.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 12:14am

I'm pretty sure I heard a thing on NPR on why it wasn't a hearing aid. But even if it is, a mystery remains: why is a big man in drag talking to himself through a hearing aid?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 12:18am

If I was ten years old this would have totally freaked me out, like the ghost boy in Three Men and Baby.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 12:19am

Or the munchkin (sorry, little person) that killed himself (sorry, passed himself away) on the set of OZ.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 12:56am

How would NPR know what it wasn't?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 1:49am

Oh god, Jordan, I had forgotten about that!

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 1:57am

So had I! It sent me on a rather enjoyable dig through Snopes.com's movie listings.

http://snopes.com/movies/films/films.asp

[pinkyboy]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 7:36am

Shame about the hearing aid, but yeah, the munchkin thing is pretty scary...
They said it was a flamingo prop, but there aren't any flamingos in the wizard of oz..

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 7:57am

There were actually several exotic birds around the set in that wooded scene. You can see a peacock. It is said to have been a live bird. And the Munchkin scenes hadn't been filmed yet, so none of those actors were on set.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 9:11am

"(sorry, passed himself away)"

I'm laughing so hard at that I'm having sinus issues.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 9:48am

LOL. I wish I could take credit for that one but it's one of my favorite lines from GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS. I use it whenever possible. :)

[SNAFU]

Posted: 10/30/10 at 11:42am

Truth is it is just Sam Beckett at the moment of a leap.
Will the next leap be his last?
Will he ever find himself back home?

Updated On: 10/30/10 at 11:42 AM