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Jess Oppenheimer, who created I Love Lucy and served for its first five years as its producer and head writer, developed the first 'in-the-lens' prompter and was awarded U.S.

On January 4, 1954, Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a teleprompter for a State of the Union address. Mechanical prompters were still being used as late as 1992.

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Dever spoke at the 1952 Democratic National Convention, also held in Chicago, using a mechanical-roll teleprompter on a long pole held by a TV technician in the convention audience, while the 1952 Republican National Convention used a smaller teleprompter placed in front of the speaker's rostrum. In 1952 former President Herbert Hoover used a Schlafly-designed speech teleprompter to address the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago. The script, in inch-high letters, was printed by a special electric typewriter on a paper scroll, which was advanced as the performer read, and the machines rented for the then-considerable sum of $30 per hour. It was simply a mechanical device, operated by a hidden technician, located near the camera. Schlafly built the first teleprompter in 1950. Barton was an actor who suggested the concept of the teleprompter as a means of assisting television performers who had to memorize large amounts of material in a short time. The TelePrompTer Corporation was founded in the 1950s by Fred Barton, Jr., Hubert Schlafly and Irving Berlin Kahn. Johnson uses a teleprompter while announcing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 'TelePrompTer' in the US, and ' Autocue' in Commonwealth and some European countries, were originally trade names, but have become genericized trademarks used for any such display device. political conferences by several large off-stage confidence monitors in 2006.

replacement of glass teleprompters at U.K.

conventions - added a large off-stage confidence monitor and inset lectern monitor in 1996

computer-based rolls of 1982 and the four-prompter system for U.S.

dual glass teleprompters - used by TV presenters and for U.S.

first mechanical paper roll teleprompters - used by television presenters and speakers at U.S.

The technology has continued to develop, including the following iterations:

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Notes or cue cards, on the other hand, require the presenter to look at them instead of at the lens, which can cause the speaker to appear distracted, depending the degree of deflection from the natural line of sight to the camera lens, and how long the speaker needs to glance away to glean the next speaking point speakers who can internalize a full sentence or paragraph in a single short glance timed to natural breaks in the spoken cadence will create only a small or negligible impression of distraction. Mechanically this works in a very similar way to the Pepper's ghost illusion from classic theatre: an image viewable from one angle but not another.īecause the speaker can look straight at the lens while reading the script, the teleprompter creates the illusion that the speaker has memorized the speech or is speaking spontaneously, looking directly into the camera lens.

Light from the performer passes through the front side of the glass into the lens, while a shroud surrounding the lens and the back side of the glass prevents unwanted light from entering the lens.

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The screen is in front of, and usually below, the lens of a professional video camera, and the words on the screen are reflected to the eyes of the presenter using a sheet of clear glass or other beam splitter, so that they are read by looking directly at the lens position, but are not imaged by the lens. Using a teleprompter is similar to using cue cards. Schematic representation: (1) Video camera (2) Shroud (3) Video monitor (4) Clear glass or beam splitter (5) Image from subject (6) Image from video monitorĪ teleprompter, also known as an autocue, is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script.