Perspective Is Everything…

On July 19, 2012 - TV History

Perspective Is Everything…

In this photo, the size of the teleprompter just jumps off the page for some reason. Although we’ve all seen them before, it suddenly seems huge, but to everyone’s credit, this cumbersome configuration worked for the talent as well as the camera crews. This is long time ABC cameraman Charlie Henry on the WABC News set with an Ikegami 312E. I think the prompter is a QTV model.

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5 Comments

  1. Richard A. Wayne July 19, 2012

    This is one of those instances where the prompter outweighs the camera and the pedestal :-/

  2. Tom Edwards July 19, 2012

    When I see that particular orginal Circle 7 logo, I always wonder if It’s New York, LA, Chicago, San Francisco or Detroit — the orginal big market ABC O&O’s. Action News.

  3. Bianca Stafford July 19, 2012

    I used to have to tape the teleprompter rolls to gether. Lot’s of fun.

  4. Charlie Henry July 19, 2012

    That photo was taken on the set of WABC-TV Eyewitness News in the early 80’s and that is a QTV teleprompter monitor.

  5. David Fell July 19, 2012

    I remember giving a tour of my station to an aunt. After I explained how the teleprompter worked, she was saddened. All this time she thought the anchors memorized their scripts every night.