Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
movie

30 years of television. 24 hours a day. 70,000 tapes
Released April 25, 2019
Genres:
Overview
Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.
Runtime
1h 27m
Origin Country
United States
Original Language
English
Original Title
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Status
Released
Production Countries
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- English
Production Companies

End Cue
United States
- no logo available
Electric Chinoland
United States
- no logo available
C41
United States

Polari Pictures
United States
Keywords
- media
- 1970s
- socialism
- collector
- biography
- vhs
- archive footage
- tape recording
- 9/11
- mass media
- video recorder
- communism
- videotape
- iran hostage crisis
- 1980s
- activist
- 1990s
- compulsive hoarding
- media criticism
- media power
- film archives
- 2000s
- local television
- reclusive
- 2010s
- compulsive collector
- lost media
- documentary
- digital archiving
- television
- vhs tapes
- sandy hook
- home archive
- archivist
- archiving


