Charlie Chaplin Time Traveler Myth Is Not What It Appears To Be

The internet has been inundated with footage from a 1928 film starring Charlie Chaplin called ‘The Circus’.

The reason for this is that in a scene in the Hollywood movie it shows a woman in what looks like she has a cell phone up to her ear.

The scene makes out like the woman is a time traveler and that the cell phone like device is something from the future that would take place of an ear trumpet.

While the shape of the device does look like a cell phone, according to Irish filmmaker George Clarke, the cell phone like contraption was just what it was, a hearing device and that the woman was simply hard of hearing.