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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

"30 years of television. 24 hours a day. 70,000 tapes"

2019-04-25
6.7
en 87m
Documentary
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.

Director

Matt Wolf

Editor

Keiko Deguchi

Director of Photography

Chris Dapkins

Director of Photography

Matt Mitchell

Production Design

Jesika Farkas

Art Direction

Jaf Farkas

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Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • End Cue
  • Electric Chinoland
  • C41

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