Woman Using Mobile Phone In 1930s!
  • 32 points LaughMadcap

    Isn't she just holding her hat inward while she's taking that tight corner out the door

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    11 points Kd916-650

    This is exactly what’s happening. You just can’t tell it’s the hat cause the contrast or the color and the shadow but if you change it, you could see it. Or look very carefully…

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    1 points thedenv

    Yeh, thats it. Thought it was a book to cover her face at first...maybe she didnt want to see someone in there but the hat comment makes total sense.

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  • 15 points Little_Bus_8210

    Who would she even be talking to if she did have a phone.

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    2 points ShibaHook

    Greg

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    -7 points Jonathon_world

    Calling a landline

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    5 points Little_Bus_8210

    On which network?

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    -11 points Jonathon_world

    Whatever network her phone was on before she set off on a time travel

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    7 points Little_Bus_8210

    Wow that’s amazing. I’d also love to see the videos she took on that phone! They must be wild.

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    -2 points Jonathon_world

    She filmed the zoo which had extinct animals I think

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    3 points TSisold

    She can get reception from her carrier time traveling, but I still have dead spots on my way to work. That seems unfair 😕

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    3 points brian_hogg

    So the phone is a special time travelling phone?

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    0 points Jonathon_world

    No she took some items with her one was this phone

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    2 points brian_hogg

    You wrote: “ Whatever network her phone was on before she set off on a time travel”

    Which means that if she’s using a cell phone in the 1930’s, either to call a number in her own time, or a number in the 1930’s, that call would be routed through the future.

    So that phone would have be a Time Machine as well.

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    No it's not that it's just a smart phone it finds a way and she can call the network and they can assist her with the problem

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    3 points ManMakesWorld

    This is the dumbest single statement I have ever read..... wow.

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    1 points MrBones_Gravestone

    Do… do you not know how smart phones work? They don’t get signal if you just go too far in the woods, and you think they’ll get signal in the 1930s when there are no signal towers?

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    Then she's probably trying to call her phone network asking why it's not working

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  • 27 points Valkymaera

    This is entertaining to think about but we can be pretty confident it's not a phone. Who would they be calling? How would they be calling without cell service?

    We did hold other things to/in our ears before phones. It's probably one of those things.

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    11 points N1N4-

    The first hearing aid device was invented 1898. The first electric ones was 1933 on the market.

    wiki

    She is walking out and talking to the other women. After she is to far away she stopped, because she can't hear the other women? Thats only my opinion

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    5 points Odd-Understanding399

    The other INVISIBLE women, you mean. Yes, cloaking technology comes much earlier than cellphone technology.

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    1 points SarahPallorMortis

    There were no cell towers. The phone wouldn’t work anyway.

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    -6 points Jonathon_world

    Shes probably talking to a friend on a landline

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    4 points HiddenAspie

    On what cell tower?

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    8 points Iamjimmym

    In before OP claims "iT wAs oN a sATeLlitE"

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    -6 points Jonathon_world

    If you take a mobile back there it must still work they are smart phones

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    4 points HiddenAspie

    Nope, there are many many places where they don't function today because there's not a near enough cell tower. Rest assured that there would be absolutely no service whatsoever back then.

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    -4 points Jonathon_world

    Your phone must be faulty and how would you know it won't work without time travelling yourself and testing out a phone

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    3 points HiddenAspie

    You have no concept of how phones work. Look up dead zones. It's not the phone it is the lack of cell towers.

    And we all can be certain it wouldn't work, even without traveling, because there were no cell towers at all.

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    -2 points Jonathon_world

    Then she's probably trying to call her phone network asking why it's not working

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    5 points ObamaLovesKetamine

    brain like 3 year old taffy stuck on the back of a sun bleached bench.

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    2 points Upstairs-Ad-4705

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    2 points naughtycal11

    Are your age and IQ the same?

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    I'm 140 years old

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  • 8 points Planet6EQUJ5

    Even if a time traveler takes a mobile phone with them to the past, without a network, they cannot use it to make calls.

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    0 points Jonathon_world

    That's just you guessing

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  • 5 points BrianScottGregory

    The TARDIS is around the corner, obviously there's a connection that allows her to talk to her mom in 2025 London.

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  • 4 points emquizitive

    That thing she’s holding is huge. It’s clearly not a phone.

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  • 4 points le_aerius

    This has been debunked so many times.

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  • 3 points Girotavo

    No

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  • 3 points MK2GolfGuy

    How would she be using a phone in the 30’s? What satelites / relay stations would the signal be carried through? 😂😂

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    -1 points Jonathon_world

    How do you know

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    1 points MK2GolfGuy

    So you’re telling me there were satellites and relay stations for mobile phones??

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    3 points Jonathon_world

    She might be calling up her phone network asking why it's not working

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    1 points MK2GolfGuy

    Good point

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  • 3 points 11corduroy

    https://preview.redd.it/ncfq7456m49g1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b12b817e3f76117dfafb791821d6bccea5094c92

    Portable radio, 1930's. Could pick up stations within 80km range. 20 years before the transistor radio came to market.

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    0 points Jonathon_world

    They are not walking though people didn't play music walking back then

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    1 points naughtycal11

    Just because people didn't generally do something as a whole doesn't mean there aren't outliers. Apply Occam's Razor. What's more likely, a woman walking while using a portable radio or a time traveler using a cellphone in a world without cellphone towers.

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  • 3 points brian_hogg

    Woman listening to a portable radio!

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  • 5 points Illuminatus-Prime

    That's an ear trumpet.  It's like an L-shaped funnel that you hold up to your ear to capture sounds.

    An image of a larger one can be seen HERE

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    2 points Jonathon_world

    Good old ear trumpet!

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  • 4 points motoringeek

    Even if it were a mobile phone. It wouldn't work because there was no infrastructure for them in that time period.

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    Then she might be talking to her phone network asking why it's not working

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    2 points Upstairs-Ad-4705

    How would she connect to her phone network if her phone network literally didn't exist yet bro

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    If you take a smart phone to 1930s and call your network it must still go through to the 2025 network and they can help her out with the network problem

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    2 points Upstairs-Ad-4705

    Your phone sends out radio waves that then get to a cell tower that then carries those radio waves to the person you are trying to call. (Satellite is also an option)

    If you are in the 1930s, there are no cell towers and there are no satellites. Your phone will still send out radio waves but they won't get picked up by anything. It is physically impossible to call someone like this.

    Imagine being on a deserted island. No technology anywhere. Just because you traveled from New York to that island, that doesn't mean you can call people just because "you could call people back in New York!!"

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    0 points Jonathon_world

    Yer but you don't understand that the phone just connects to the 2025 and can still be used

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    2 points Upstairs-Ad-4705

    So you're saying the phone is a special time travel phone that sends radio waves through time?

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    0 points Jonathon_world

    No Im saying she tested the phone there and it just worked

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  • 2 points Hazys

    Yeah she holding her hat. I saw this clip before , next there is another one kinda interesting is that guy outfit is quite modern not in line way back in 30s, 40s.

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  • 2 points Alicam123

    It’s a hat, she is holding it to her head, change contrast and you see it clearly. 🤦🏻‍♀️

    Even if it was time travel, the network wouldn’t even be operational in 1930 and the technology to use those kind of signals wouldn’t be usable without the correct systems and satellites.

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  • 1 points Legitimate-Course-29

    Finally, definitive proof of time travel. No further discussion necessary

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  • 1 points Correct-Turn-329

    quick question: how was this recorded? And the camera shake like it's ON a mobile phone? What?

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    They were recording a documentary with a 1930s camera

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    1 points Correct-Turn-329

    do they shake like that? I've never seen a film fro that time that had either the shaking camera or the colored film. Tbh, it looks more like AI took a film photo and colorized/animated it, resulting in the phone usage. Why is that guy just standing there? Why are the kther pedestrians acting like, well, weirdos?

    But also, videos like this have existed since well before AI, so. Y'know. Fuck if I know

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    Yer but there is loads of footage back then not filmed on a tripod. Why is there a guy standing there lol it's a free country isn't it and he might be the door man or waiting to collect a package or waiting for a friend

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  • 1 points barney_trumpleton

    Wouldn't a time traveler have hands free?

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    She might have left it in the hotel she was staying at

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    1 points barney_trumpleton

    Ah yeah, probably left it on charge.

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    1 points Jonathon_world

    She might have a phone with a huge battery life

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  • 1 points JohnnyFuego777

    Is this not a movie? Pretty sure it can’t be the original film and they have it in color from 1930.

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  • 1 points BeautifulTrade4488

    The first time travel attempts will be based on quantum computers interconnected by a small tunnel generated by the Casimir effect. Perhaps that's why Hawking's famous party with invited guests was a failure. And in the next thousand years, this will be the only way for information to travel through time, after overcoming several obstacles related to the generation of the small wormhole created by the Casimir effect.

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  • 1 points No7Again11

    Ow yer and its connecting to all those cell towers. She just holding her flipping hat

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  • 1 points sir_duckingtale

    Mobile phones wouldn’t work in the 1930‘s because neither satellites nor the infrastructure for mobile calls would exist so it could only be used as a brick or a mobile calculator

    If you managed to power it on with some sort of adapter

    The infrastructure just isn‘t there in that time or for 70-80 years for a mobile phone to work

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  • 1 points Desperate-Ball-4423

    She's holding her hat

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  • 1 points Unhappy-Monk-6439

    Looks totally AI generated with clichees screaming 1930s. 

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    1 points maximvmcope

    I've seen this YEARS before AI was around.

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