Marion Marguerite Stokes bough her first videotape recorder in 1977. What started as casually recording her favorite shows, evolved into recording 24 hours of television everyday on six to eight tvs and video recorders in her Rittenhouse Square apartment for 30+ years. Her 70,000 plus tapes are a comprehensive television archives that document storytelling and media influence from crisis to crisis.

Explore the Marion Stokes archives via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/marionstokesvideo

For more information, and full transcripts, visit ArchivalPod.com

Audio Credits: Music by Scott Buckley; Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019); Inter ...