Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019)

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Richard Branson
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Tom Brokaw
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George W. Bush
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Johnny Carson
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Jimmy Carter
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Rosalynn Carter
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Fidel Castro
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Julia Child
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Description: For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979--at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 as the Sandy Hook massacre played on television while Marion passed away. In between, Marion filled 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today and in the process tell us wh ... (more)

Release date: 15 November 2019