red states rule
04-27-2011, 04:02 AM
I wonder if Pres Obama will attand the service? Without this man Obama may never have won the election and things would be so much better in in America and in the world
Telemprompter Inventor "Hub" Schlafly Dies; Device Changed Public Address in America
Hubert J. “Hub” Schlafly Jr., a television engineer who aided countless politicians and performers when he helped invent the scrolling public-speaking crutch known as a teleprompter, died April 20 of undisclosed causes at a hospital in Stamford, Conn. He was 91.
Inspiration for the teleprompter came in the late 1940s from a Broadway actor, Fred Barton, who dreamed up a device that would help him remember his lines. He pitched his idea to Irving Kahn, then vice president for radio and television at 20th Century Fox.
Kahn turned to Mr. Schlafly, director of television research at Fox.
“I said it was a piece of cake,” Mr. Schlafly told the Stamford Advocate newspaper in 2008.
He installed a motorized scroll of paper inside half a suitcase. Actors’ lines were printed on the paper in half-inch letters, and the suitcase was set up next to studio cameras. The scrolling speed was controlled by a stagehand.
“We tried at one time to have the speaker control the speed,” Mr. Schlafly told the Advocate. That idea went nowhere, he said. “It was like patting your head and rubbing your stomach.”
Gambling that they would find customers for their invention, Barton, Kahn and Mr. Schlafly quit their jobs to start a new company, TelePrompTer Corp.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hub-schlafly-tv-engineer-who-helped-invent-teleprompter-dies-at-91/2011/04/25/AF1K57lE_story.html
Telemprompter Inventor "Hub" Schlafly Dies; Device Changed Public Address in America
Hubert J. “Hub” Schlafly Jr., a television engineer who aided countless politicians and performers when he helped invent the scrolling public-speaking crutch known as a teleprompter, died April 20 of undisclosed causes at a hospital in Stamford, Conn. He was 91.
Inspiration for the teleprompter came in the late 1940s from a Broadway actor, Fred Barton, who dreamed up a device that would help him remember his lines. He pitched his idea to Irving Kahn, then vice president for radio and television at 20th Century Fox.
Kahn turned to Mr. Schlafly, director of television research at Fox.
“I said it was a piece of cake,” Mr. Schlafly told the Stamford Advocate newspaper in 2008.
He installed a motorized scroll of paper inside half a suitcase. Actors’ lines were printed on the paper in half-inch letters, and the suitcase was set up next to studio cameras. The scrolling speed was controlled by a stagehand.
“We tried at one time to have the speaker control the speed,” Mr. Schlafly told the Advocate. That idea went nowhere, he said. “It was like patting your head and rubbing your stomach.”
Gambling that they would find customers for their invention, Barton, Kahn and Mr. Schlafly quit their jobs to start a new company, TelePrompTer Corp.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hub-schlafly-tv-engineer-who-helped-invent-teleprompter-dies-at-91/2011/04/25/AF1K57lE_story.html