This bizarre sounding piece of equipment is actually a long awaited answer to a common interview problem.

An untrained interview subject is nervously looking into a camera lens and then keeps looking off camera at the interviewer who questions him. The Interritron is a simple but elegant solution. Its actually two teleprompters which have been modified to accept a video image. With the addition of a simple camera we have a closed TV system.

The interviewer sits in a separate space and is shot by the second camera. His image is projected on the teleprompter in front of the interviewee. That way the interviewee is relaxed as he/she is looking into the teleprompter and seeing not a cold, unblinking lens but the face of the person speaking to him and can concentrate on his/her answer rather than looking off camera at the director/interviewer. In short, the Interritron relaxes the “talent” and keeps their eye line right where it should be.

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