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And the funding came from ....?

Another article about a person who did something for years but where the bread, and here the money for equipment and storage space, came from does not feature. I would have liked to do a lot of things in my life but the necessity to spend my life making a crust prevented me from that. Ally Hauptmann-Gurski 2001:8003:AC60:1400:2442:B8AD:5A27:82B5 (talk) 01:31, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent point. This article currently reads somewhat like it was created by the makers of the documentary about her to promote the documentary. The current article lacks even basic biographical information beyond birth an death dates. A Philadelphia Inquirer article says that she "was a card-carrying communist who bought Apple stock at $7 and made a fortune" and her "her second husband, John S. Stokes Jr., [was] heir to a Philadelphia manufacturing fortune and a key figure in her life and in the accumulation of the television archive." https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/movies/marion-stokes-recorder-documentary-philadelphia-vhs-vcr-20190621.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.104.197.154 (talk) 16:09, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also, another article says "She also made a small fortune in Apple stock, which funded her project and 'the massive storage space she required as the sole force behind it.'" http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/how-marion-stokes-an-activist-librarian-recorded-over-30-years-of-tv-news-on-70000-video-tapes.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.104.197.154 (talk) 16:13, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]