And you know what ? They spent the whole conversation talking about Gossip Girl . Well , they would ’ve done — had the A-one - rare , never - seen - before footage not been filmed in 1922 .
British Pathé delve up the footage , and is on the smell - out for anyone who might have some selective information about who the women are ( or were ) , or those who might know about the ( mobile ) phone used in the moving picture .
The television below show the woman using an umbrella as the forward pass , with one of them enwrap the phone ’s conducting wire around the node of a attack hydrant . Then , they hear sweet 1920s twinkly euphony bet down the phone from the phone manipulator ’s gramophone .
One of the caption to the unsounded moving-picture show says that it ’s “ Eve ’s portable wireless phone – and wo n’t hubby have a time when he has to carry one ! ”
Despite the picture ’s age , it would be many decennary later until Eve ’s “ hubby ” was able to carry around the world ’s first commercial-grade ( peregrine ) phone — the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x , in 1983 . [ The TelegraphviaRecombu ]
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