Director Matt Wolf's documentary spotlights activist archivist Marion Stokes' life's work: a comprehensive collection of television news broadcasts from 1979 to 2012. It showcases her unusual life as a former librarian, an African-American Communist radical, an eccentric wife, mother, and employer, and the historical and cultural significance of the 70,000 VHS tapes of television footage that she left behind (which is now managed by the Internet Archive in San Francisco). Augustine Chay, Rovi
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Director Matt Wolf's documentary spotlights activist archivist Marion Stokes' life's work: a comprehensive collection of television news broadcasts from 1979 to 2012. It showcases her unusual life as a former librarian, an African-American Communist radical, an eccentric wife, mother, and employer, and the historical and cultural significance of the 70,000 VHS tapes of television footage that she left behind (which is now managed by the Internet Archive in San Francisco). Augustine Chay, Rovi
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