Teleprompter
Teleprónter
- Date
- 1950 · confidence high
- Place
- New York City, United States
- Credited to
- Hubert Schlafly
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Schlafly built the first teleprompter, a typed paper scroll advanced by a hidden technician next to the camera lens so the presenter could read the script while looking straight ahead; it debuted on December 4, 1950 on CBS soap opera The First Hundred Years.
What it led to
- Standardization of the teleprompter in news broadcasts, political speeches and filming
- Electronic and digital versions of the teleprompter