Time Traveler spotted at the 1928 Chaplin film "The Circus"

[HeyMoe]

Spock and Kirk did it!!

Whats to say she isn't using a communicator or something?

 

[Blackjack]

Spock's head looks too big, this is obviously photo shopped,

 

[Lady Day]

The only hoax is the guy who 'found' this. Hes a filmmaker and I think is doing this for publicity. Millions have looked at this video (a friend made me) and even if a small fraction look at this guys stuff, its more than before, so his job is done.

This takes place in the early 20s, and this person is wearing 20+ year old clothing, so they are probably and old lady or something with a new gadget. Its most likely a hearing aid.

LD

 

[HeyMoe]

Spock's head looks too big, this is obviously photo shopped,

Nope, not photo shopped at all - it's from this episode:


Title ------------------ A Piece of the Action
Story ---------------------- David P. Harmon
Teleplay ---- David P. Harmon & Gene L. Coon
Director --------------------- James Komack
Original Air Date ----------- January 12, 1968
Order of Filming ------------------------ 49th
Order of Broadcasting ------------------ 46th
Filmed ----------------- Early November 1967


The planet Sigma Iotia II's last visit by the Federation was by the U.S.S. Horizon ... a hundred years before. Realizing the lapse in monitoring the planet, the Federation sends the U.S.S. Enterprise to observe the progress of Iotia's population.

Beaming down to the planet's surface, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are surprised to see a much different society — an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture — than was reported by the U.S.S. Horizon crew. Bodily seized, the landing crew are taken before one of the major planetary leaders, mobster Bela Oxmyx. Wishing to unite the population under his rule, Bela offers Kirk "a piece of the action" in exchange for the technologically advanced weapons of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Meanwhile, the other lead gangster, Jojo Krako, has his own idea about being the head mobster and captures the Enterprise officers. Struggling to gain the upper hand in this comical power struggle, Kirk creates a diversion ... a little card game known as fizzbin. Without knowing the nuances of the culture, Kirk and Spock try to accomplish their mission when Kirk attempts to drive a car and Spock strives to speak in gangster slang.

Finally, Bela Oxmyx is given a display of the Federation's power when he is beamed aboard the Enterprise and held hostage in the transporter room. Arranging a meeting between the two antagonists, Kirk is successful in uniting the two gangs in a loose system of government with the Federation as Godfather ... for a piece of the action, of course. Furthermore, upon discovering a book — "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties" — the U.S.S. Horizon crew left behind 100 years before, Kirk and Spock finally understand how the highly imitative Iotians reinvented their entire society.

Back aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, Kirk notices McCoy unusually drawn and worried. When questioned, McCoy is forced to admit that he thinks he left his communicator on Sigma Iotia II, leaving him to wonder what type of planetary society the next Federation visit will find ...

 

[jamespowers]

Spock's head looks too big, this is obviously photo shopped,

Its not too big. He just has a big horse head.

 

[Blackjack]

I was just kidding, since everyone always says IT's PHOTOSHOPPED everytime a picture is posted, LOL

 

[miger]

i can't get reception now, never mind in 1930!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

The only hoax is the guy who 'found' this. Hes a filmmaker and I think is doing this for publicity. Millions have looked at this video (a friend made me) and even if a small fraction look at this guys stuff, its more than before, so his job is done.

This takes place in the early 20s, and this person is wearing 20+ year old clothing, so they are probably and old lady or something with a new gadget. Its most likely a hearing aid.

LD

Couldn't agree more with you LD. I'm also so sick of the hype and people on FB saying how "amazing" the video is (in all seriousness.) I can't believe that people can't figure out she is most likely testing a hearing aid!!!

 

[jamespowers]

I was just kidding, since everyone always says IT's PHOTOSHOPPED everytime a picture is posted, LOL

I know. I was sort of being facetious. However, when I look at that picture it is clear he has a big horse head.

 

[scotrace]

Or giving her ear a good scratch.

 

[jamespowers]

Or giving her ear a good scratch.

Are you saying she has head fleas or lice? Wow! That would be vintage.

 

[scotrace]

If you can believe that a woman in a 1920's film is talking on a cell phone...

You probably bought the whole "Y2K computer disaster" hoax.

 

[jamespowers]

If you can believe that a woman in a 1920's film is talking on a cell phone...

You probably bought the whole "Y2K computer disaster" hoax.

So how many dehydrated meals did you set aside?

 

[Blackjack]

If you can believe that a woman in a 1920's film is talking on a cell phone...

You probably bought the whole "Y2K computer disaster" hoax.

I can't believe this thread is still going on, and I don't think she's on a cell either, BUT...again I have to say there isn't one person on this thread who can give the slightest proof that she isn't, at least the folks who think she might be can say "well it sure looks like she is". So there's no need to insult people for what they may or may not think. Name calling and comparisons are really childish and I would of hoped this crowd would be above such behavior.

 

[kampkatz]

A fascinating discussion. If someone who had worked on the film was still alive, all those questions would be answered. Too bad it was not discovered 20 years ago. Even Maxwell Smart didn't have a shoe phone as sophiscated as in this film.

 

[jamespowers]

A fascinating discussion. If someone who had worked on the film was still alive, all those questions would be answered. Too bad it was not discovered 20 years ago. Even Maxwell Smart didn't have a shoe phone as sophiscated as in this film.

Can you hear me now?

 

[LizzieMaine]

What this whole phenomenon has taught me is how unspeakably easy it would be to pull a time-travel hoax *today.* What if one of us here were to get fully dressed in absolutely correct vintage attire and accoutrements, arm ourselves with the appropriately researched vintage ID, period currency, the whole bit, and stagger into a police station in some remote two-bit town claiming that we were walking down the road on a foggy night and when the fog cleared we were "here, wherever here is." When questioned, we would give the date as November 3, 1942, or whatever, and we would answer all questions put to us in the manner of a person from that time.

Properly prepared and properly researched, I think it'd be very very easy to pull off a hoax like this. Within a week, it'd have gotten into the papers, the cable TV, and every halfwit blogger in the world would have a theory about it.

Not that I'd ever actually do it, you understand. I don't have larceny in my soul. But, still, it makes for an interesting intellectual exercise.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I wish I could pull something like that off!!! But I would just crack up laughing and totally give myself away as a hoaxster. I also have tattoos, but they are vintage in nature and some people in a two-bit town wouldn't know the difference anyway...lol

Man, to hear all the media studies blogs.....I would die laughing.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I actually worked this all out once one night when I couldn't get to sleep, and almost convinced myself to give it a shot -- I actually have my grandmother's 1942 driver's license, gas ration card, and bankbook, and it would be terribly terribly easy to change the "5'" in the height box on the license to "5' 6". Otherwise the description is a perfect match.

I finally figured the one thing that I couldn't explain away would be my dental fillings -- the ones they do today are a material that wasn't used then. But I bet it'd be a while before they got around to examining the "mystery woman" that thoroughly, and I bet that'd be time enough for the thing to go viral.

 

[Yeps]

I actually worked this all out once one night when I couldn't get to sleep, and almost convinced myself to give it a shot -- I actually have my grandmother's 1942 driver's license, gas ration card, and bankbook, and it would be terribly terribly easy to change the "5'" in the height box on the license to "5' 6". Otherwise the description is a perfect match.

I finally figured the one thing that I couldn't explain away would be my dental fillings -- the ones they do today are a material that wasn't used then. But I bet it'd be a while before they got around to examining the "mystery woman" that thoroughly, and I bet that'd be time enough for the thing to go viral.

You should do it. That sounds like a hoot.