The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller
- by C. R. Berry
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller” by C. R. Berry, in Tigershark Magazine 11, Autumn 2016.
What could that mysterious woman be doing on the film clip of the 1928 premier of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, other than apparently talking into a small brick held to her ear?
—Michael Main
Yup, this woman was talking on a mobile phone—in 1928—decades before they were invented.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: the showing of The Circus
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: the time of George Clarke, during an airing of a new episode of Breaking Bad
- Time Travel Methods
- Unexplained Time Travel Methods: Flint’s trip to 1928 is the first intention time travelling in the Million Eyes series.
- Themes
- Time Travel Research Program: Detective Inspector Martin Hammond, Miss Morgan, Gillian Flint, et al.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller” by C. R. Berry, in Tigershark Magazine 11, Autumn 2016.
- revised for collection.“The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller” by C. R. Berry, in Million Eyes: Extra Time (Elsewhen Press, October 2019).
Indexer Notes
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- Variants—According to the copyright page of Million Eyes: Extra Time, the nine republished stories in that collection are revisions of their earlier publications.