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Family outings had to fit the videotape
Marion Stokes recorded television news for decades in the United States. Family outings were arranged around six-hour tapes, which needed changing. Her collection grew to about 71,000 tapes and was donated to the Internet Archive after her death.
Broadcasts that would normally disappear became a vast personal archive.
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