Marion Stokes was an activist who preserved more than three decades’ worth of television recordings, resulting in what some say is one of the largest known personal archive of such material. It is the largest known archive of television by an individual. Remarkably Marion saved it, and now the Internet Archive will digitize her tapes and we’ll be able to search them online for free. However, the Internet Archive corrected this number to 40,000 as they began receiving containers of the tapes from Stokes’ family. The family overestimated.”The Internet Archive also reached out to Fast Company with an update:The Internet Archive received four shipping containers of Stokes’ tapes in December.

Source: The Guardian April 26, 2022 17:14 UTC