Comments on: “Time-traveler” in Chaplin Film, 1928

By: Jinx

Jinx — Mon, 24 Oct 2024 03:30:07 +0000

There is nothing in her hand. As you can see at the very tail end, she moves her fingers toward the hat brim, opening her hand. The man in front of her was her husband, he walked on to the ticket office/front door, while she adjusts her hair or hat. If it was windy on Hollywood Blvd that day (wearing a coat, it must have been chilly!), she was holding her hat or hair, or shading her eyes from the glare of that sun!

She was talking to her husband of many years, as wives are wont to do. Even if he’s out of earshot, well, he has convenient hearing when he’s closer, it never stopped her before!

There’s nothing there. Interesting hand placement. 30 or 40 years ago, no one would have thought anything of it.

The man looks familiar. Not D.W. Griffith, but possibly involved with the film in some way.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 17 Sep 2024 12:31:37 +0000

Of course it’s a mobile ‘phone! They already had them way back in 1922, as this just-rediscovered Pathe film proves:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILiLaRXHUr0&feature=feedu

By: fitz

fitz — Sat, 03 Sep 2024 01:53:22 +0000

I saw this when I was a kid (circa 1960). Cell phones didn’t exist for me, so my view of this woman was that she was putting pressure on a toothache.

Although dentistry had advanced considerably, artifacts contemporaneous with the Chaplin film abounded in my life. Cartoonists, for example, invariably signaled a character with a toothache with a white cloth tied to the top of their head and crossing down below the jaw.

The cell phone theory is funnier, though.

By: Tha_Pig

Tha_Pig — Sun, 21 Aug 2024 04:36:58 +0000

Crazy person talking to his wallet.

By: Hank the Tank

Hank the Tank — Tue, 02 Aug 2024 20:06:56 +0000

You guys are all foobing idiots

By: Ira

Ira — Sat, 02 Jul 2024 09:22:52 +0000

Oops. I mean protesting not protrasting. Lol.