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Marion Marguerite Stokes ( née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and prolific archivist, especially known for her archiving of hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 unt...
Apr 26, 2024 · For 30 years, Philadelphia civil rights activist Marion Stokes recorded television for 24 hours a day, amassing over 70,000 tapes. From 1979 to 2012, Marion Stokes recorded her television 24/7. In total, she amassed about 71,000 tapes of archival footage.
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project - a new documentary by Matt Wolf. Marion Stokes was an activist who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years on 70,000 VHS tapes.
Apr 30, 2019 · Stokes is the subject of Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, a new documentary that highlights her work as an archivist, but paints a complex picture of a woman who was brushed off as an eccentric for most of her life.
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Oct 13, 2021 · 3800 Pt.3 (Remastered) by. Marion Stokes. Publication date. 2021-10-13. Usage. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International. Topics. Marion Stokes, Phil Donahue, 60 Minutes, commercials, vhs, 1980s.
Spanning 70,000 videotapes that captured revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows, and commercials, Stokes’ visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family...
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Feb 2, 2024 · Marion Stokes was a civil rights activist, feminist and independent archivist. Fascinated by “how media reflects society to itself,” she videotaped 33 years of the 24-hour news cycle on 70,000 VHS tapes. Some of her recordings are the only known saved documentation.