That a character travels to the past with a smartphone from the present sounds like the script of Darkthe acclaimed German Netflix series. That a time traveler uses a cell phone in a video from 1938 also seems like a science fiction movie. Or not?
A clip from the 1930s of a woman leaving a Dupont factory with her friends has gone viral on the internet. But the strange thing about the video is that this lady he has a strange device in his hands that appears to be a flip phoneand the strangest thing yet, she rushes to put it away when she realizes she’s being recorded.
The video was recorded in Leomister, Massachusetts, United States, according to the report of the website of Latin Platformwhich opens the debate on the possibility that this woman actually used a cell phone in 1938, a creation of the seventies.
The most conspiratorial claim that this is proof that time travel is real, but was it really that?
deciphering the video
The viralized video has been shared by different accounts on YouTube and is entitled “Time traveler in 1938 film”, which shows this mysterious woman, dressed in an elegant dress from the thirties and walking in the middle of the crowd, with this device in his ear that appears to be a cell phone.
The video seems clear, until we read the testimony shared by the portal of Alternate Dimensionwhich quotes nothing more and nothing less than to the grandson of the alleged time traveler, identified by him as Gertrude Jones.
According to the report, this youtuber who calls himself Planetcheck assured that what his grandmother used in the video was a prototype of a wireless communicator produced at the factory: “The lady you see is my grandmother Gertrude Jones. She was 17 years old. When I asked her about this video, she clearly remembered. My grandmother says that Dupont had a telephone communications section in their factory.
“Experiments were made with cordless phones. My grandmother and five other women have had these devices for a week for testing.”Jones’s grandson explained.
Other cases of “time travel”
The website of contact ufo He recalled another case of supposed time travel, in Charlie Chaplin’s film The Circus (1928). on tape, a woman appears talking on what would be a mobile phone.
The presentation that the Spanish band had Parcheesiin Mexico, in 1982, in which a person in the audience is recording with an object that appears to be a smartphonea case that even has a documentary on Netflix and that they denied on several occasions by assuring that it was a Nintendo Game & Watch.
The website of Daily Viralspecializing in cases such as those mentioned, quoted David Mikkelson, founder of snopes.coma website that specializes in analyzing the internet’s most popular theories, who told The Huffington Post in an interview that videos like these they are very difficult to test.
“These movie clips don’t have enough resolution to see what people are wearing. It could be anything from a bandana to a hearing aid, or who knows what. And since the video has no sound, you can’t even tell if the person was engaged in a two-way conversation.Mikkelson analyzed.
The specialist added that, in the case of the woman from the Dupont factory, it could have been a kind of prototype similar to the walkie-talkie, but added: “I doubt very much that if it were true they would give it to a young woman who works in the factory. And why is there no documentation about it?”.