Maybe she was talking into an early tape recorder?

Wikipedia says it was invented in 1886; perhaps in 1928 they were that small?

There is no way it was a cellphone or timetraveler, it physically impossible

I found a man named martin cooper creator of the cell phone born dec,26,1928. the film was aired on jan,6,1928.

if he was born in 1928 it wasnt his invention.. you do realize january 6th is 12 months before he was born…

Maybe she’s just a crazy person. You know, what we used to call people who talked to themselves before bluetooth.

it’s probably a walky talky duh

Must be really good cell phone service back then, with all them towers they had eh?

OMG this is so insaine dude thats gotta be a time traveler just because that sounds so cool

dude are you serious he was bearly 1

says who the government or school mabey its not mabey you have just been conditioned your entire life to think that mabey its all starting to come out now free your mind dont let people put limits on it

It had to be Nicola Tesla himself. Thomas Edison really was and idiot. Stupid J.P. Morgan shouldn’t have cut Tesla’s funding.

No guys it is THE DOCTOR

except for the fact that walky talkys weren’t invented until 1938….duh

No he wasn’t bearly one, he wasn’t born yet. Do your math again. January comes way before December and I think the point this person was making is that it couldn’t have been a cell phone because the inventor of the cell phone wasn’t born yet.

Um science says it’s impossible, and by the way you spell maybe M-A-Y-B-E.

amazing!..

By the way you spell maybe, M-A-Y-B-E, so you should probably work on your spelling as well.

Perhaps she’s speaking with The Doctor

Most people on average are “right handed”, and normally speak while listening in their right ear. Hence this “older woman”, was probably on the shy side… Hence covering her left side of her face with her hand (away from the huge lead film camera) and talking to herself & saying: “I can’t believe I’m doing this!” Why is her hand shaped that way then? Let’s say she’s holding a “kleenex/hanky”, as was a custom in the 1020′s.

if you look closely she or he looks at the camera and glances and laughs i really think its a time traveler its hard to believe but true

could be a crazy person w/ice pack or heated water pack on a toothache muttering about her discomfort

She has some huge feet!

If there are time travelers, im sure we’d see one by now, i know if i had that technology when im older, i’d come back to see deceased relatives, advance the technology now a days so that when i go back to “my” time we’d be even more advanced…even more than aliens o.O hahahah

is it possible to see the uncut footage so the cross fade doesnt happen

i am sure it is not a blackberry storm. those don’t even work in the future.

i have thought that myself, would see if anything at all what shre is holding

Don’t let these people put limits on your phonetic spelling.

Identity of mystery Charlie Chaplin time traveler revealed.
http://sandboxworld.com/charlie-chaplin-time-traveler-revealed/

SIMPLES: she sees the camera…tries to cover her face as she walks past it…laughs towards the director who is on front of her as she realises she was in fact being recorded

[...] this “Time Traveler” video, you can see a woman walking down the street during filming of extra footage for Chaplin’s [...]

Someone trying to use a cell phone in 1920 would get “no service”, there were no cell towers or infrastructure to support them.

It’s an ordinary film clip that’s been given an amusing interpretation. People such as our Irish friend pretend to be mystified by it (“Could it be….a…time…traveler?”) in order to get attention, get website hits, etc.

they cut his funding since he found an unlimited source of energy, with that edison and j.p could not have made any money so they stopped him

well technically everything is impossible until it happens…splitting an atom was impossible at a time, flying was impossible, training a bear to ride a bicycle was impossible…..not anymore

beam me up Scottie

i think this is some sort of expirimental handheld radio because back in the late 1800′s/early 1900s there was a lot of expirimenting going on with the radio.

POSSABUL SHE HADE A TOOTH AKE AND ITS A ICE PACK AND SHES BITHCH ING ABOUT THE PAIN

POSSABUL SHE HADE A TOOTH AKE AND ITS A ICE PACK AND SHES BITHCH ING ABOUT THE PAIN

POSSABULL ITS A TOOTH AKE AND SHES USEING ICE ,AND BITHING ABOUT PAIN

see if a lip reader can make anything out of those few lip movements.

what if her cell phone has a time travel app that not only allows her to travel through time, but speak through time as well? wouldn’t it be easier to send a message than a whole person?

There is nothing in her hand, when she turns, she squeezes her hand, if there was something this could have not happened. Of course if you show this video just to random people they will be amazed – “oh, iphone 3G in the beginning of the XX-th century – she should of taken a picture of the cameraman and placed it on facebook!” Come on! Try to show this to an expert, or you’re afraid that your super popular theory will be destroyed in a second? No more popularity?
Yeh, by the way don’t you remember that Chaplin was a comic director, this just could have been a joke or something, this lady is an actress (maybe a man actor). So relax, even if there were some time travelers I think they could not bring a cell phone transmitting station l

Just because this looks like a person talking on a cell phone, doesn’t mean that’s what it is. As others have stated, there were no cell towers. She/he (kind of reminds me of The Penguin) is holding something and may or may not be speaking. This is a bit like seeing an unidentifiable light or shinny thing in the sky and saying it must be a spacecraft because, what else could it be? Oh, wait… maybe she/he is an alien from another world, communicating with the mother ship!