“At the time, there was a lot more live television, which many people today tend to forget.” Instead of memorizing the same batch of lines over the course of months, Barton was now expected to memorize new lines on a weekly or even daily basis. “For those that had been either in theater or the movies, the transition to television was difficult, because there was a much greater need for memorizing lines,” says Christopher Sterling, a media historian at George Washington University. Actor Fred Barton Jr., a Broadway veteran, was nervous. The device started out in 1948 as a roll of butcher paper rigged up inside half of a suitcase.
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Perhaps more than any other technological advance-more than the touch-screen voting booth, the automated campaign phone call or even the slick TV attack ad-the teleprompter continues to define our political age. And while conservatives take great pleasure in mocking President Obama’s reliance on a machine to help him deliver his speeches, the truth is that both candidates-along with politicians for more than a generation-read off of thin, nearly invisible plates of glass angled at a 45-degree slant at either side of their podiums. Both of the candidates read their words while looking out at the crowds, instead of down at a piece of paper, conveying the idea that they’ve memorized their speeches and are connecting with their audiences.
As President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney enter the home stretch of their campaigns, they've now been touring the country and delivering the same stump speech three times per day for the past ten months straight.
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