# Claim table — Recorder / Marion Stokes TikTok

| Claim / issue | Evidence label |
|---|---|
| Documentary title | The correct film title is Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project. It was directed by Matt Wolf and released/festival-premiered in 2019. |
| Marion Stokes recorded television around the clock | Supported. Official film materials say she secretly recorded television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years. |
| The project began around the Iranian hostage crisis | Supported by official film copy: it says the project started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the 24-hour news cycle. |
| The archive ended at her death in 2012 | Supported. Official film copy says it ended Dec. 14, 2012 while Sandy Hook coverage played on television as she died. |
| 71,716 tapes | Supported as a widely repeated precise count in the TikTok/secondary source trail, but the official film page uses the round figure 70,000 VHS tapes. Managing Expectations should say 70,000+ and note the 71,716 figure as the TikTok’s precise claim. |
| She preserved more than news | Supported. Official film copy lists revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows and commercials. |
| The Internet Archive would digitize/preserve the collection | Supported. Official film copy says the Internet Archive will digitize the tapes so they can be searched online for free; Archive.org has a Marion Stokes collection page. |
| She was only a hoarder | Too simple. Sources describe obsessive accumulation and severe personal cost, but also a deliberate preservation project by an activist/librarian/producer/archivist. |
| Apple investments funded the archive | Plausible and widely reported in secondary sources/TikTok; treat with attribution unless sourcing from primary financial records. |
| The TikTok visuals are documentary footage | Not verified. The TikTok uses portrait/tape/archive-style visuals; source package preserves them, but the article should not assume every background image is from the documentary or archive. |