Does anyone know what this location is that Newt Gingrich always does news interviews from?

[KostasKouvalis]

[MrOracle]

This is what you would see if the camera zoomed out.

Yes. It's a Remote Production Truck with a big TV (or, in older ones, a green-screen, but those have been mostly phased out), with a picture of Amsterdam behind him. Government figures almost never allow "real" pictures of their whereabouts to be on video live, because people could figure out where they were.

And this is even further back.

I've worked on TV interviews a couple of times, and unless you are close to a major studio (LA, NYC, Atlanta), the norm is to be interviewed in a remote truck. The studio still has complete control of the environment and has everything set up and ready to go.

This is an outside view of a typical Remote Truck

[KostasKouvalis]

That IS Amsterdam?
I don't care if it's green screen or not, I was interested in the location

[MrOracle]

Yes, that's almost certainly Amsterdam.



I'm far from an expert, never having been there, but that's definitely classical Dutch architecture as seen in parts of Amsterdam.

[MrOracle]

Or at least, is heavily inspired by it.

[KostasKouvalis]

Honestly, it looks like a reconstruction to me

[MrOracle]

It could be. Clearly Amsterdam's classical buildings are the inspiration, whether that's a newer set of buildings in Amsterdam or somewhere else. It's obviously a town built on a river, but there's quite a few of those.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah, I don't like this. A street front like that would surely be famous. It looks like an animated image

[Anonymous]

when you walk into a TV studio they have digital backgrounds for wherever the person is supposed to be. So if a commentator works out of Seattle but is visiting Nebraska they can put up a background for Seattle, or anywhere they want to be

Newt lives in Virginia. that background looks like it's in Europe, probably the Netherlands

Newton was a common name for a boy in the Northeast when Newt was born, and his father's name was Newton

he was a real looker back in the day

[Siri137]

What on earth were his parents thinking when they named him 'Newt'?

[KostasKouvalis]

His birth name is Newton

[KostasKouvalis]

Pink Anon explained in her post why they named him Newton

[RyanEC]

Kind of looks like Amsterdam.

[BarryLiverstone]

His house

[KostasKouvalis]

Is it really?

[BarryLiverstone]

Probably

[OtterMan68]

Old folks home?

[KostasKouvalis]

That's not funny! This is driving me nuts