Can we get this one over with and get back to real issues soon please?
This video may be a very clever piece of marketing (and nothing more) but I hate how these things can pull along so many gullible people. Most people will watch it and say "nonsense" but literally 1000s out of the millions of people who have already watched this video will be going around worrying about time travel/aliens etc instead of problems that are actually real.
In attempt to sell the odd thing these people take advantage of something which we are all guilty of which is what Huxley described as "man's almost infinite appetite for distraction".
It is much easier to get in a lather over nonsense such as the Chaplin video than it is to consider the serious things - which were put succinctly by Derrick Jensen...
Maybe we should try to put this one to bed quickly then?
Courtesy of the good ladies over at Skepchick.org here is a very convincing explanation of what the woman in the video was doing...
Western Electric Model 34A "Audiphone" Carbon Hearing Aid "The Western Electric 34A carbon hearing aid was manufactured by the Western Electric Company in 1925. Western Electric marketed these early hearing aids under the "Audiphone" trade name.
It was one of the few 1-piece carbon hearing aids of the time. The unit measured 7 " by 4" by 1 " and weighed just under 2 lbs. when fitted with batteries.
The Audiphone consists of a carbon
microphone (top left) inside a metal case also holding three "D" size
1 volt batteries (bottom half of case)."
The most important point to note is that he gets about 3 or 4 adverts in the first minute of his time travel video. Watch it and count them.
The Herald provides another good explanation of what is going on...
Now, study the film on YouTube. At 58 seconds in, the film-maker very clearly shows us the box set of Charlie Chaplin DVDs and tells us the price: "15 or 20 quid for all of his classics."So, forget the extra and the mobile
phone. Think about time and timing. As I write this, George Clarke's
video has had over four million views. More than four million people
are now aware that you can buy all of Chaplin's classics for about 15
quid. And we are only a few weeks away from Christmas. Yes. That's
right: time travellers gave us the concept of viral advertising. And,
perhaps, cynicism.
Or would that be undercover marketing?
By the way, if there is anyone here involved in marketing...
Finally, if you want to know something that is really interesting
about Charlie Chaplin and not just a load of made up shite, probably for
the puropses of selling people things, then watch Mark Steel's video
about him where you can learn that Charlie Chaplin was a man who wouldn't join the Communist party because he thought it wasn't leftwing enough for him. Fair play to Charlie. He also refused to go in front of the McCarthy witchhunt unless he was allowed to wear his tramp costume.
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