A 1928 cell phone? A time traveler captured on film?

Since yesterday, this has made the rounds on the internets. It's a piece of film "discovered" by one George Clarke, an Irish filmmaker. While looking at archival footage of the opening of the film "The Circus" by Charles Chaplin, he saw something quite rare; a lady waking near Graumman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, apparently talking on a "cell phone". The premiere was on January 6, 1928!

Just watch the video and draw your own conclusions.



What do you think?

Ok! This is very creepy!!!

If you have gone to the Bodies exhibition here in San Juan, you may find that is actually creepy to see cadavers doing stuff that probably never did when they were alive. But the new exhibition in Germany takes the cake!

For a walking science book, the Body World exhibit and its ilk sure court a lot of controversy. In Europe, the bodies are now having sex and scandal has erupted once again.

Gunther von Hagens, the anatomist who discovered the process to preserve the bodies with plastic, opened Cycles of Life in Zurich this week, and Zurichers are up in arms. Why? Because this time the preserved corpses are not only stripped of their skin, but they're posed having sex with each other. If everyone is dead, is that still necrophilia? If the performers are dead, is it still porn? The exhibit first, er, popped up in Germany this May and lawmakers in the country asked that it be banned.

This is a new twist for the Body World exhibits, which started off just posing bodies in different positions and featuring different body parts like the heart and the brain. In 2008 Body Worlds & The Mirror of Time debuted featuring corpses of infants and the elderly. Since once people have seen one dead body they've seen them all, Body Worlds seems intent on finding new and disgustingly exciting ways of titillating patrons. Once they've gotten the real life dead dolls doing it, where else is there to go?

This isn't the first time the exhibit has created controversy, but it's usually over the origin of the bodies. In 2006, the New York Times exposed the booming body business in China, which supplies many of the cadavers for the exhibits. Many of the bodies didn't have documentation, it turned out, may have been the remains of political prisoners.

Last Spring, Premier Exhibitions reached a settlement with the New York Attorney General's office agreeing that from here on it will get authorization from the deceased before displaying any their remains. As for the bodies already on display, they issue warnings that say they may belong to Chinese political prisoners. Also, anyone who previously went to the exhibit is eligible for a refund.

Creepy!