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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
This Charlie Chaplin video above purports to show a man entering from the right walking to the left holding a cell phone to his head. I think that's far fetched but still....
The 2nd video shows a woman walking in 1938 while talking on her cell phone.
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I believe these may be an example of a form of Pareidolia. "is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists." Wikepedia
We are familiar with a cell phone and the observed pose is similar to a person talking on a cell phone. There is not an obvious reason for what the people are doing (lack of context) so our mind, in searching for an interpretation "fills in the blanks" with something we know.
Different people will "see" different things depending on their experiences.
Older people who may not be as familiar with cell phones may "see" a person holding a transistor radio to their ear while younger people who have never used a transistor radio would be unlikely to "see" that.
Often the human mind, when presented with incomplete information, will attempt to fill in the missing information with more familiar stuff.
Photo interpreters spend many hours learning not to do this.
