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It is fake, just a hearing aid from 1924, check out this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwTbUfaPcLo

Somebody said she may have had a kind of early hearing aid, called an ear trumpet, it was held up to the ear like that.

Then I don't know much about photography or videography, but could this whole thing be a fake, made today. There are certainly methods of making things look like something from back then, but done today. Or the other thing is, maybe a "Forest Gump' thing, where somebody's current day picture (dressed like the time) is inserted, with cell phone into an old picture. I don't know

Unless they had secret cell towers, built by Buck Rogers or somebody, there would be no way to have a cell phone signal at that time. But stranger things have happened!

A behind the scene footage of a Charlie Chaplin movie where there was a woman walking past in the background, appears to be talking into a cell phone.

its dumb really

If she brought that cell phone from the future, how the hell did she get signal at all when there are no such technology back then

it's about a clip from a charlie chaplin movie back in the 1920s and in the background, you can see a woman passing by appears to be talking to a cellphone..