" Human history is in essence the history of ideas. "
HG Wells The Outline of History
Since November 6, 2010, a rumor ignited the web. We have found evidence that time travel exist! It was George Clarke, an Irish director, who said evidence uncovered by looking closely at the bonus DVD that have the "making of" film The Circus Charlie Chaplin filmed in 1928. In fact, Chaplin was careful at the time of filming those who went to the premiere screening of his film. historian Marc Ferro has long defended the fact that we had to consider the documentary images as sources essential to interpret the past. It was through the latter found that the German people of the country never took himself seriously when he was taken to greet the Führer. Stifled laughter often followed hello. Without detailed examination of these images, you would think, "says Marc Ferro, this whole people believed in his actions and meanings that accompanied them. Documentary films we demonstrate that not. 
is a similar exercise which has engaged George Clarke with the making-of documentary Chaplin. One can discover the rest, its interpretation on YouTube (here ). Clarke draws our attention to a lady with a hat pulled low over his head. It is present in the image moments. It crosses the frame, passing between the film poster of Chaplin and a beautiful fake zebra. The lady emissions an object against her ear and appears to speak at the same time it works. Neither one, nor two, George Clarke acknowledged there any gesture that motivates us today when we phone in the street. A gesture today transposed in 1928! And it is this observation correct, but decontextualized, that Clarke invites us to imagine that this lady is a lady today filmed by the camera unexpectedly Chaplin. Thanks to some unknown machine latter, a lively curiosity flawless would projected in time to see - we know the taste of some compulsive passion for this practice - the 'real' first Circus. 
Although this is a joke, we observe how Clark argues, and exudes a genuine conviction to lead us to the interpretation of time travel. We know a picture coupled with a good argument would have us believe any what. The news proves it every day. Yet this is the buzz among Internet users, many of which appear to seriously adhere to the version of time travel. We forget too often, so that an image is not only received in a space of perception is the "show" and "said" or "commented". An image is always received with what we also want to see, to believe, to imagine it. And we can not answer that to the imagination with imagination. Also to test the theory of sustainable Clarke, we must first recall of we have phoned in to the street. They were observed by all, we walked away from it, embarrassed, as we are embarrassed by those who drank more than others around the diners. This is not the case here. Finally, we would imagine to credit Clark as telephone conversations that would not run only in space but in time, from one era to another and that the antennas would be installed without our knowledge since at least the beginning of last century. Therefore, the only question worth asking at watching this little movie is: if it was indeed a fan of time travel from our present (and even our near future), so who that lady in the hat she could call in 1928? ( For information, Unesco will provide 16 and 17 December 2010 in Paris a conference entitled Ghosts, Monsters and other riders: that part of ourselves that we escaped ).
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