[ngcles]

Hi all,

Interesting indeed but I think I can provide a solution and cast doubt on the idea that it is a mobile phone (apart from what has already been posted).

The fellow who introduces the video provides half of what I think is probably the answer: It not only looks like a bloke in drag, I'm certain it's a bloke in drag. Look at the size of the feet and the ankles and the size of the hands, not to mention the face that is seen fleetingly. Look at the gait. Don't judge the gait in slow-motion, run it at normal speed. Look at the hooter! This is clearly a bloke in women's clothing. That is why the hand is being held up to the side of the face -- to help disguise that fact.

Why put a bloke in drag when the part appears to be no more than an extra? Who knows, but maybe they wanted a female that looked middle aged, short and rotund and they couldn't find a person among the crop of extras that day that fitted the bill and just put a guy in drag and told him to hold his hand up to partly cover his face -- after all, he was only going to be on screen for a couple of seconds, who would notice? Maybe none of the females who turned up that day fitted the costume? Seems like a reasonable explanation to me anyway.

If that really is a mobile phone "she's" talking on, then mobile phones must get bigger in the future where time travel is invented. Either that, or time travel was invented in the early 1990's (when phones were bigger) and they haven't told the rest of us yet. I don't think you can, (given the poor quality of the image) say for certain it is a phone or even an object of some type in "her" hand. It may well be holding up a collar of the dark coat "she's" wearing to partly disguse the face. Put against that, "she" certainly does seem to be talking and the mannerisms for mobile phone talk do look approximately right.

Who would "she" be speaking to when there were no networks back then? Are the radio photons being received and emitted time travelling as well? Besides that, no self-respecting time travelling male would be in drag and talk on a mobile in the middle of a film-set anyway -- it's just a way of drawing attention to one's-self surely?

Nope, I reckon it's a bloke in drag with the hand up to the side of the face partly holding up a collar of the dark coat to conceal that fact.


Best,

Les D