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TelePrompTer; Laff Box. The trademarked TelePromTer hidden from the audience, provides television performers with a magnified script he or she can read line by line. Its counter- part in the theater is its ancestor, the human prompter. The TelePrompTer was introduced in 1951. In Britain it is called the “autocue.” Another device invented for television is the trade- marked Laff Box, or laugh track, which supplies recorded audi- ence reactions for TV shows, reproducing “giggles, guffaws, cries, moans, jeers, ohs and ahs,” etc., when needed. It was in- vented by Charles (Charlie) Rolland Douglass (1910–2003) in the early 1950s. |