Film-maker 'finds evidence of time travel'

A film-maker believes he has found evidence of time travel in footage from a Charlie Chaplin film premiere shot in 1928.

George Clarke, from Belfast, says he has been puzzled for more than a year by the film which appears to show a woman talking on a mobile phone.

He has posted the video on YouTube where it has notched up more than 2.2 million hits in just ten days, reports the BBC.

Mr Clarke was checking the extras on a Chaplin DVD box-set and began watching a clip of the 1928 Hollywood premiere of The Circus.

"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 ear which looked quite familiar in today's society," he said.

"So I wound it back and watched it again, zoomed it in and slowed it down and got other people in to check it out. Everybody had the same reaction - it looks like she's talking on a mobile phone."

He has since showed the clip to a number of people, including the audience of a Belfast film festival but says no-one has been able to provide an explanation.

Since posting it on Youtube, the clip has provoked nearly 18,000 comments, divided between those who believe in the possibility of time travel, and those who clearly do not.

One user, George, comments: "My initial reaction was that's a mobile phone, they weren't around then, my only explanation... it was kind of like wow that's somebody that's went back in time."

But another says: "I am pretty sure it is just a shadow, and her hand is empty. I think she is just scratching her head, maybe asking herself: 'Where the hell did I park my DeLorean?'!"