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Learn about the life and legacy of Marion Stokes, who recorded American TV 24/7 for over 30 years. Watch the film that explores her visionary and maddening project, and its impact on the media and the truth.
A documentary film about Marion Stokes, who recorded 840,000 hours of news footage on VHS and Betamax for 35 years. The film explores her obsession, legacy and the Internet Archive's preservation of her archive.
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project peels back the curtain on her life, through a mix of Stokes’ own archive of recordings and interviews with those who knew her best. Premiering Monday,...
- 31 sec
- 8.9K
- PBS
With Anne Stokes Hochberg, Frank Hollman, Tom Keenan, Anna Lofton. For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news 24 hours a day filling 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing wars, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Matt Wolf
- 2019-11-15
Oct 2, 2019 · RECORDER: The Marion Stokes Project - official US trailer. A film by Matt WolfFor over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day.
- 2 min
- 65K
- ZeitgeistFilms
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project. The strange life of a woman for whom home taping was a form of activism to protect the truth (the public didn't know it, but the networks had been disposing their archives for decades into the trashcan of history) and though her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, her extraordinary ...
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Learn about Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded American TV for 30 years, and her son's reflections on her life and legacy. This documentary explores how her archive reveals the history and impact of media on society.
