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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Got rid of the Apple computers, but no one would take the tapes, no one

Got rid of the Apple computers, but no one would take the tapes, no one

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Got rid of the Apple computers,
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but no one would take the tapes,
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no one.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
01:19:54
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
End Cue,Electric Chinoland,C41

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Movie Summary

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.
So we decided to take allthe tapes and put '’em in a pod. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
So we decided to take allthe tapes and put '’em in a po...
They were like 16 foot long, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
They were like 16 foot long,
We were very afraid nobody wants these - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
We were very afraid nobody wants these
This story just hits home with us newsies, us news junkies. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
This story just hits home with us newsies, us news junkies.
Every news broadcast for 35 years - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Every news broadcast for 35 years
Thirty-five years, and for thatwe have this woman to thank, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Thirty-five years, and for thatwe have this woman to thank,
Marion Stokes hit record way back in 1977. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Marion Stokes hit record way back in 1977.
She didn'’t stop until December of 2012. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
She didn'’t stop until December of 2012.
All of that history arriving today by truck at an archive - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
All of that history arriving today by truck at an archive
With me now from Philadelphia is Marion Stokes'’ son, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
With me now from Philadelphia is Marion Stokes'’ son,
But first, Roger, to you, tell me - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
But first, Roger, to you, tell me
It'’s an exceptional collection, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
It'’s an exceptional collection,
I first heard of Marion Stokes - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
I first heard of Marion Stokes
I was just amazed that somebody - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
I was just amazed that somebody
We shipped it across the country, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:12
We shipped it across the country,
That we just felt like, you know, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
That we just felt like, you know,
I think the scale of Marion Stokes'’ collection - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
I think the scale of Marion Stokes'’ collection
Nobody in this field has ever heard or seen the like. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Nobody in this field has ever heard or seen the like.
What she recorded is inaccessible to us. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
What she recorded is inaccessible to us.
All the long form programming that she got, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
All the long form programming that she got,