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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 compulsive hoarding and archiving of hundreds of thousands of hours of television news ...
Learn about Marion Stokes, a radical activist who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years on 70,000 VHS tapes. The film explores her visionary and maddening project, its impact on history and society, and the challenges she faced.
Apr 26, 2024 · Marion Stokes was a former librarian and activist who obsessively taped every broadcast she could access from 1979 to 2012. She amassed over 70,000 tapes of news, sit-coms, commercials, and talk shows, hoping to preserve historical details and facts.
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Apr 26, 2022 · Marion Stokes was a Black activist who recorded thousands of hours of television news for over 30 years. Learn about her life, her project, and the status of her collection in the Internet Archive.
Apr 29, 2019 · Marion Stokes was an activist archivist who taped thousands of hours of news and media from 1975 to 2012. Her collection, now digitized by the Internet Archive, is the only comprehensive record of this period in television history.
May 7, 2019 · Marion Stokes secretly recorded 70,000 VHS tapes' worth of US broadcasts from 1979 until her death in 2012. Her son explains why, as a new documentary about her is...
Nov 21, 2013 · Marion Stokes was a former librarian who recorded every major news event from 1977 to 2012 on VHS tapes. The Internet Archive has digitized and indexed her archive, making it available for online search and research.
