Or, since you can’t see anything in her hand but shadows, the most likely explanation is that it’s nothing at all. Of course, it could just be a walky talky. Of course, Richard and the guy in the original video use the more European word “mobile phone”, which could be something else entirely, but is that what they’re thinking of? And when we reach a future where time travel is simple enough that an idiot who gets caught talking on his communicator on film can do it, and we can communicate without any apparent background infrastructure whatsoever, then I would think we would be sufficiently advanced not to have a handset at all. It could be something more futuristic, but it is not a cell phone, nor is it a satellite phone. If the claim being made is that it is a cell phone, since the “cell” stands for cellular network, as I’m sure you’re aware, it’s called that because the towers form a network of cells around them in which your phone will work. I suppose it depends on what we’re arguing. In my opinion, s/he is, more than likely, using a device which was available in 1928 but none which has been mentioned (Siemens hearing aid, personal radio) above. Since this film is 1928, the phone scenario seems a fairly remote (but not totally out of the question) possibility. If it was a modern film, I would say that this person is talking on a phone: I watched several people in the town centre yesterday perform similar actions and all of them, without exception, were talking on a mobile phone. It is clear she is having a conversation with somebody, utilising the device (whatever it is) which is facilitating the conversation. This person is walking along and talking into whatever she is holding to her face. She (or he) isn’t holding a diary up to her face in an attempt to obscure her face from the camera. It isn’t an ear trumpet because look at the hands of the person holding it, the object being held near to the ear is oblong-shaped and fairly-flat (just like a mobile phone). There were personal radios since the early 1920’s, but it’s not one of those (they were too big and bulky) there was also an oblong-shaped hearing aid (brought out in 1924 by Siemens), though the most likely explanation, I don’t think it’s one of those since you don’t usually talk into them, let alone shout out “NO” into one.
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