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Marion Stokes hit record way back in 1977
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Marion Stokes hit recordway back in 1977

Marion Stokes hit record
way back in 1977

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Marion Stokes hit record way back in 1977.
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5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
01:20:54
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
End Cue,Electric Chinoland,C41

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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.
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,
There are probably elements that she has that nobody has. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
There are probably elements that she has that nobody has.
She understood the power of media - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
She understood the power of media
One of my mother'’s dreams was that - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
One of my mother'’s dreams was that
As an only child, you know, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:14
As an only child, you know,
What we'’re offering is to search television by keyword. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
What we'’re offering is to search television by keyword...
They can use the closed captioning as a tag - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
They can use the closed captioning as a tag
More than ever people need access to reliable information - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
More than ever people need access to reliable information