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Teleprompter
Also Known As TelePrompTer (original trademark spelling)
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The teleprompter is a display device that shows a speaker scrolling text, letting a television performer read a script while appearing to speak from memory directly to the camera. Hubert Schlafly built the first working model in 1950 through the TelePrompTer Corporation, and it saw its first broadcast use on December 4, 1950, on the CBS soap opera The First Hundred Years; I Love Lucy creator Jess Oppenheimer later developed and patented an improved in the lens version. The technology quickly became a staple of television news and remains the primary system newscasters use today, and producers of Dragnet estimated it cut the show's production time by as much as half.
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Introduced Year OriginInvented by Hubert Schlafly, who built the first teleprompter in 1950 for the TelePrompTer Corporation, founded with Fred Barton Jr. and Irving Berlin Kahn. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Schlafly built the first teleprompter in 1950. It was simply a mechanical device, operated by a hidden technician, located near the camera.
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