Oh, so those are teleprompters
2008 November 5
Photo: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
I’ve always wondered what those two rectangular items were on either side of the podium during big speeches. It turns out that they are teleprompters for the speaker, as seen in these images of Barack Obama, courtesy of The Big Picture.
Up until now, I thought that those “mirrors” were for photographic lighting purposes, but there was always something odd about where they were placed that made me not believe my own inference 100%.
Anyway, I included a couple of more examples of the teleprompters inside if you care to see.
Photo: AP Photo/Chris Carlson
Photo: REUTERS/Jim Young
- A photograph of a railway yard master’s office
- The Wall Street Journal Photo Journal
- Houses floating down the Cedar River
- West Side Rail Yard in the 1930’s
- A picture of an injured man