Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

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David F @dfulmer Dec 30 This is a fascinating documentary about a woman who recorded multiple TV channels around the clock for years and years. Through interviews with friends, family, and employees, the filmmakers explore this woman’s amazing project and follow along as her tapes are donated to the Internet Archive. There is a montage showing the way 9/11 unfolded on four different TV channels which really vividly illustrates the great value of this woman’s collection. This will be of interest to anyone fascinated by hoarders, interested in TV, or just with a curiosity about eccentric human behaviour. See more Sarah W @RT55062288 08/07/2023 Marion Stokes was a public intellectual and an activist who also tape recorded television new shows for 35 years. Starting with the Iran hostage crisis and ending with Sandy Hook, Stokes showed how new stories evolve over time. Her pre-Internet prescience is worth considering in today's information ecosystem, complete with curated news feeds for social media users. Stokes understood television news in ways most people have never even considered, with one possible exception: Donald Trump. See more Graham G @RT58336164 01/03/2021 There's very little story here Don't expect any third act reveals or anything interesting about the character. The archive footage of historic events is interesting to watch. See more dave d @RT34924333 06/23/2020 Marion Stokes was a complicated woman who in the last 30 years of her life taped at least one channel of television for 24 hours and usually many more than that. She accumulated tens of thousands of hours of television that are now archived on the internet. The story of how we got there is fascinating and the result was a satisfied hubby and wife date night documentary. Credit to Matt Wolf on another outstanding film. Hubby: 8.0/Wife: 7.0 Average: 7.5/10 See more Read all reviews

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

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