Acting
Marion Stokes
Born — Died
1929-11-25 — 2012-12-14
Place of birth
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
2 titles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marion Stokes (November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania access television producer, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and prolific archivist, especially known for single-handedly amassing hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death at age 83, at which time she operated nine properties and three storage units.
Known for
6.3Marion 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.
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
2019
7.0A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
The Silver Lining
1932