Best way to make intro slides?

[UndeadMartyr]

Based on poking about on tutorials and in GECK, the tutorial slides are basically a room with a narrator behind a wall, with the slides dynamically placed on the wall. But the game, I think, uses a script to change textures of the single slide object, otherwise one would need to manually place each slide as a deactivated static object and serially activate (and deactivate) them one at a time via script.  Is that the only way to do things?