Desde 1977 hasta su muerte en 2012, Marion Marguerite Stokes grabó centenares de miles de horas de televisión. Esta mujer era productora y activista, pero también se convirtió en una documentalista obsesiva que acabó guardando más de 71.000 cintas de vídeo VHS y Betamax. El testamento de Stokes quedó en manos de Michael Metelits, su hijo. La petición era que esas cintas fueran donadas a una organización benéfica. Afortunadamente, Metelits eligió un año después a The Internet Archive.
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etiquetas: marion stokes , documentalista , vhs , noticias tv , internet archive 
[Request] How much money would cost 71,000 VHS?
I'm gonna presume she bought tapes in bulk and made use of any available clearances and discounts. Based solely on this article I found from 1996, it seems that if you looked for a good sale you could get blank tapes at around $2 apiece in 1996, which is about $3.20 in today's money.
Using that as a baseline, it would have been around $230,000 over the years.
I imagine with buying that much she's could probably find somewhere with even cheaper prices, so it could have been even half that, but it's in the ballpark of the price of a house.
www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/hj4f7q/request_how_much_money
Posible origen de su obsesión por "proteger la verdad":
Stokes was no stranger to television and its role in molding public opinion. An activist archivist, she had been a librarian with the Free Library of Philadelphia for nearly 20 years before being fired in the early 1960s, likely for her work as a Communist party organizer.
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Pregunta a su hijo Metelis:
Macdonald recalls asking Metelits, “How could you physically manage taping all this stuff? And he said, ‘Well, we’d be out at dinner and we’d have to rush home to swap tapes’ … that was one of the cycles of their lives, tape swapping.”
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-television-news-archive
youtu.be/MQ_IGRfJP5w?si=mGl0i0gQRelbBUZP
www.filmaffinity.com/es/film724031.html
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder:_The_Marion_Stokes_Project
Guardar las cintas:
especially known for her archiving of hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012,[1][2] at which time she operated nine properties and three storage units.
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Comunista, espiada por el FBI e intento de viajar a Cuba:
As a young woman, Stokes became politically active and was involved with a number of left-wing organizations. She was courted by the
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The Internet Archive received four shipping containers of Stokes’ tapes in December.
www.fastcompany.com/3022022/the-incredible-story-of-marion-stokes-who-
No llegó a grabar nada de los gomierdos de Rajoy y toda su merderada de corrupción.
Madre mia lo que era todo. Mas cutre, pero autentico.
youtu.be/Yye3zdpnnO8