* Scene at movie premiere in 1928 * Found in extras on Chaplin DVD * Is it a time traveller? I think the film-maker is missing an important point: if the woman is talking on a cell phone, then there has to be more than one time traveler. As you can imagine, this video has generated many responses. My favorite has to be this: A Northern Irish film-maker has insisted that a scene from the 1928 Charlie Chaplin film The Circus is proof positive of time travel, because nobody ever touched their face in the 1920s. George Clarke from east Belfast has been puzzled for more than a year by a scene in the film which appears to show a woman walking along whilst touching her face with her left hand. The unusual thing is that the movie was made by Charlie Chaplin in 1928 — long before the concept of touching your face whilst walking along was even invented. Mr Clarke told us, “As I sat back to watch it I realised in the first 30 seconds there’s a lady strolling by with her hand up to her face, something which you see regularly today.” “But everyone knows that face touching didn’t appear until the 1980s, and even then it was big bulky exaggerated touching, not the small discreet touching that you see today, and in that Chaplin film.” “This type of face-touching can mean only one thing — that woman is from the future.” Poorly-qualified historians and YouTube viewing morons have backed Mr Clarke’s theory, suggesting that time travelers could already be among us today. YouTube commenter …
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