Last month , we discovered that a crowd of citizenry were convinced of metre travelling due to a 1937 painting appearing to depicta gentleman maintain a cell headphone , and respond like he ’d seen a really bad tweet . This calendar month is pursue in a similar fashion , with people win over that a 1938 telecasting shows a adult female walking and talk on her cell sound .

The film , shot in 1938 New York , does show a adult female holdingsomethingto her ear , which she then puts down like she ’s just finish a call . As well as a few masses who were quick to say this confirmed sentence travelling , there were a few skeptic who point out some obvious fault in the system of logic .

" If it really was a phone , I would be more curious about how she supervise to get a signal from a non-[existent ] web provider,“one soul wrote .

" If time travel was potential , I think it would also be potential to solve the trouble of using a cell phone without proprietary cellular telephone earpiece towers,“another responded . " But that being said , why the hell would n’t you just use an auricle bud so as not to draw attention to yourself ? "

There is , of course , the interrogation of why mobile phone design changed chop-chop over 40 - ish years , before settle down on the same design until whenever it is in the distant hereafter that time travel is devise .

But if it ’s not a cell phone , what is it ? Well , it could be just about any lowly dour aim that the adult female happened to hold near her headland . But , as was the case for a " time - traveler " found in a Charlie Chaplin movie , it ’s potential that the " electric cell phone " is in fact a equipment that was uncommitted at the time .

When the Chaplin TV first circulated in 2010 after a film conductor appealed for help place the gadget , people luff outthat it could be a gadget for assisting with sense of hearing , which had been available since 1924 .

One user , concord toThe Mirror , claim that “ the madam you see is my great - grandma Gertrude Jones , " and that she was involved in testing wireless sound create by Dupont .

“ She was 17 long time old . I asked her about this video and she commend it quite clearly . She says Dupont had a telephone communicating division in the factory , " the user wrote .

“ They were experimenting with wireless telephones . Gertrude and five other cleaning woman were afford these wireless phones to test out for a hebdomad " .

Walkie talkies wereinvented in 1937 , and several other devices were in ontogenesis around this sentence , making this commentary seem reasonably plausible . However , with walkie talkies persist quite large , evenrequiring a massive backpack , it ’s in all likelihood more likely that the charwoman happened to have a small object such as a hearing aid in her mitt that she was using , or just a small pocketbook or alike item which she put to her face when dealing with a stray pilus or an itch .

Or , of course , metre travel is literal and meter travelers happen to be fixated on the belated 1930s for visiting , and the 2020s for their favored earphone intention .