Marion Stokes believed television news would one day be edited, erased, or rewritten. So in 1979, she started recording TV broadcasts and never stopped for 35 years.
Marion Stokes believed television news would one day be edited, erased, or rewritten. So in 1979, she started recording TV broadcasts and never stopped for 35 years.
She captured over 800,000 hours of broadcasts and stored more than 70,000 VHS tapes in her Philadelphia home. Her goal was to preserve an unedited record of television news, fearing that media narratives could later be altered or rewritten.
After her death, her entire collection was donated to the Internet Archive, where it has been digitized for historical research and public access.
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She captured over 800,000 hours of broadcasts and stored more than 70,000 VHS tapes in her Philadelphia home. Her goal was to preserve an unedited record of television news, fearing that media narratives could later be altered or rewritten.
After her death, her entire collection was donated to the Internet Archive, where it has been digitized for historical research and public access.
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes)
[The Marion Stokes Project: Recorder](https://vimeo.com/584416381)
She basically built a time machine out of VHS tapes. Future historians are probably grateful someone thought this far ahead.
Thank god it’s saved on the internet, where it can never be altered!
News networks couldn’t even be bothered to keep their own recordings and she did it all on her own. She was on a mission!
And after she died, her family threw them all in the dumpster
PBS documentary about her was fantastic.
All of her recordings should be transferred to digital and distributed\saved to archive.org.
Note: I see it already has been. GOOD!
I bow to her foresight.
Imagina assistir a tanto conteúdo de outro tempo!
I would honestly love to sit and watch all of that! The news would be cool but I also want to see the commercials!
Insane insight honestly. She was somewhat right. Time will tell how right she was.
Bob Monkhouse, household name when I was growing up, did the same over many years here in the UK
transparency is nice
Well I guess she read 1984
She’s got to have a fruit of the loom commercial in there with the fucking cornucopiaÂ
A hero
I wish I was that paranoid