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Marion Stokes
Marion Stokes (born Marion Butler, 25 Nov 1929 – 14 Dec 2012) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania access television producer, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and prolific hoarder and 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.
== Television news collection ==
Stokes' tape collection consisted of 24/7-coverage of FOX, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC and other networks -- recorded on on as many as eight separate VCR machines stationed throughout her house. She had a husband and children, and family outings were planned around the length of a VHS tape. Every six hours when the tapes would be ending, Stokes and her husband would run around the house to switch them out -- even cutting short meals at restaurants to make it home to switch out tapes in time. Later in life when she was not as agile, Stokes trained a helper to do the task for her. The archives ultimately grew to live on 40,000 (originally erroneously reported as 140,000 in the media) VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in Stokes' home, as well as apartment units she rented for the sole purpose of storage.〔
Stokes' son, Michael Metelits, said that the advent of 24-hour television news networks such as CNN, as well as ABC's nightly coverage of the Iran hostage crisis (which later became ''Nightline''), acted as triggers. She became convinced there was a lot of detail in the news at risk of disappearing forever, and began taping. In an interview with a WNYC program, Metelits stated that Stokes "channeled her natural hoarding tendencies to () task (creating an archive )."〔
While her collection is not the only instance of massive television footage taping, it is unique in the care taken as to its preservation. Known collections of similar scale have not been as well-maintained -- sometimes even treated with utter disregard by those creating them, rendering a large percentage of their footage useless.
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