[0.00-8.00] 71,716 VHS tapes, nine apartments, and one woman who saw what was coming.
[8.00-12.08] There's a documentary called Recorder, the Marion Stokes Project,
[12.08-17.76] and it sounds impossible until you research and realize all of it is true.
[17.76-23.20] It's about a woman named Marion Stokes who spent 30 years recording television nonstop
[23.20-27.60] because she believed that someday people would try to rewrite history.
[27.60-32.00] Beginning in the late 70s, Marion pressed record and she never stopped.
[32.00-36.24] She used multiple VCRs to record up to eight channels at once.
[36.24-40.40] Everything from CNN to Fox News to C-SPAN to talk shows,
[40.40-43.04] even the commercials in between shows.
[43.04-47.76] While the rest of the world was watching television, Marion was archiving it.
[47.76-54.16] She rented and filled nine apartments in Philadelphia with tapes, over 71,000 of them.
[54.16-56.32] She said she was saving the truth.
[56.32-61.84] Television networks eventually delete their footage and she knew that these tapes could prove
[61.84-64.08] how the stories change over time.
[64.08-65.92] She was also obsessed with Apple.
[65.92-68.72] She believed that technology could preserve truth,
[68.72-72.88] so she bought all of the Apple products that she could get her hands on,
[72.88-78.64] including Max, I-books, E-Max, hundreds of them still in their boxes.
[78.64-83.92] She was also an early investor in Apple which wound up funding her ability
[83.92-88.08] to do all of this archiving and rent all of those apartments.