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The Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project opens at the Roxie Theatre Jan. 17 in San Francisco, Roger Macdonald, TV collections director at The Internet Archive in San Francisco, joins us with Tevor Von Stein, who was a volunteer initially on the Marion Stokes Project at the Archive. They join us to unravel the mystery and wonder that is Marion Stokes and this over 70,000 VHS tapes and also writings and other documents in the MSP. Roger will be speaking this weekend at the Roxie at select screenings. Visit https://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project/?instance_id=38611

Marion Stokes (1929-2012) famously recorded TV news 24 hours a day for 35 years. When she passed away in 2012, she left behind over 70,000 VHS tapes containing hours and hours of footage. Filmmaker Matt Wolf set out to document this obsessive documenter in his new film, "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival opens at the Roxie in SF Jan. 17-23. 

2. MacKenzie Fegan interviews Matt Wolf on Bric TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb00vGaWa6c
3. The Rescue List, dir. Alyssa Fedele, Zach Fink (2018). On PBS 3.23.2020.