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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news 24 hours a day filling 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing wars, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today.

Director

Matt Wolf

Year

Genre

documentary, biography, history

Box Office

$55,632

Production

End Cue,Electric Chinoland,C41

Awards

4 nominations

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https://recorderfilm.com/

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We have a report,
Barbara, excuse me, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

We have a report, Barbara, excuse me,

Now we can'’t go any further
than that on that report, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Now we can'’t go any further than that on that report,...

It must be filed
from Tehran, and, uh, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

It must be filed from Tehran, and, uh,

Imagine that,
we are within half an hour - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Imagine that, we are within half an hour

Ted, can you come in and
give us any late information - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Ted, can you come in and give us any late information

It'’s two words,
it says, "Hostages Freed." - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

It'’s two words, it says, "Hostages Freed."

- What do you have to say, sir?
- There'’s only one thing - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

- What do you have to say, sir? - There'’s only one thi...

One of the most dramatic
freedom pictures that we'’ve - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

One of the most dramatic freedom pictures that we'’ve

The Iranian hostage crisis
happened in 1979 - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The Iranian hostage crisis happened in 1979

So my mother started taping - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

So my mother started taping

Then she, she really, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Then she, she really,

I recall there were times when - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I recall there were times when

Normally, there were three
to five tapes recording. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Normally, there were three to five tapes recording.

People would say
things, like, "Well, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

People would say things, like, "Well,

She understood
that this was changing, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She understood that this was changing,

And if we came in
and the tape stopped, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And if we came in and the tape stopped,

"The tape is ended,
what happened?" - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

"The tape is ended, what happened?"

She always knew exactly - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She always knew exactly

There is a system with your
TV where you can record stuff, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

There is a system with your TV where you can record stuff,

She was concerned someone else
would know what she was taping. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She was concerned someone else would know what she was tapin...

And she said,
"I can tape what I want - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And she said, "I can tape what I want

A moment-by-moment account
on how things changed - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

A moment-by-moment account on how things changed

She would often ask the people, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She would often ask the people,

I don'’t look like you
and you don'’t understand - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I don'’t look like you and you don'’t understand...

When she moved into
The Barclay, she said - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

When she moved into The Barclay, she said

She was secretive about
the process of recording - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She was secretive about the process of recording

Lucy Coleman and Liz
are identical twins - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Lucy Coleman and Liz are identical twins

The odds of twins living
a century are said to be - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The odds of twins living a century are said to be

This is the greatest thing
this town has ever had. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

This is the greatest thing this town has ever had.

- That'’s fine, thank you.
- You'’re very welcome. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

- That'’s fine, thank you. - You'’re very welcome....

She told her husband
ten years ago - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She told her husband ten years ago

So after the 62-year old woman - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

So after the 62-year old woman

After the car was lowered
into the vault by the crane, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

After the car was lowered into the vault by the crane,

She'’s 18 months old,
she'’s been trapped - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She'’s 18 months old, she'’s been trapped

The child fell while playing - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The child fell while playing

Rescuers are now trying
to tunnel through rock - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Rescuers are now trying to tunnel through rock

How loud can you be
when you love God? - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

How loud can you be when you love God?

Placid and tranquil until
the preachers hit the streets. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Placid and tranquil until the preachers hit the streets.

If you are found without
the blood of Jesus Christ, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

If you are found without the blood of Jesus Christ,

She did remark periodically
on how small events - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She did remark periodically on how small events

She was concerned with how
that 24-hour news cycle - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She was concerned with how that 24-hour news cycle

They send us
their cars, their VCRs, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

They send us their cars, their VCRs,

Their success makes them
money, not necessarily friends. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Their success makes them money, not necessarily friends.

The Japanese have a big
public relations problem - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The Japanese have a big public relations problem

Japan'’s newest export,
Sumo wrestlers. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Japan'’s newest export, Sumo wrestlers.

The Japanese have just sent
America several tons of sumos, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The Japanese have just sent America several tons of sumos,

Since the first of the year, a
new law allows German citizens - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Since the first of the year, a new law allows German citizen...

For decades,
the police, known as Stasi, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

For decades, the police, known as Stasi,

The East German
Secret Police had - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The East German Secret Police had

The law not only gives
victims access to their files, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The law not only gives victims access to their files,

Truthfulness
will not cushion the pain - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Truthfulness will not cushion the pain

She was obsessed with the
mediation of media, you know, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She was obsessed with the mediation of media, you know,

Exploitation of tearful widows, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Exploitation of tearful widows,

And although accusing
the press of looking bad - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And although accusing the press of looking bad

The polling data
that I have seen - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The polling data that I have seen

The public is fairly content
with the journalism - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The public is fairly content with the journalism

I was thinking, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I was thinking,

I think it was
for the betterment of mankind. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I think it was for the betterment of mankind.

You talk among yourselves
in a technical language - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

You talk among yourselves in a technical language

You need, you need
to deal with people - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

You need, you need to deal with people

It seemed like she
was always interested - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

It seemed like she was always interested

John and Marion were working on - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

John and Marion were working on

To have a confrontation,
let'’s say, Jewish/Christian, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

To have a confrontation, let'’s say, Jewish/Christian,...

So that this concept of really
opening yourself is, uh, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

So that this concept of really opening yourself is, uh,

I completely believe they were
really fighting for justice - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I completely believe they were really fighting for justice

Any conceptual prejudice
or any misinformation - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Any conceptual prejudice or any misinformation

And when it'’s examined in
this, uh, spirit of affirmation, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And when it'’s examined in this, uh, spirit of affirmat...

You know, I was this guy
from the street corner - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

You know, I was this guy from the street corner

I knew that he didn'’t work, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I knew that he didn'’t work,

It was real '’60s type of thing
and we'’d hang out together. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

It was real '’60s type of thing and we'’d hang out...

His quest was always, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

His quest was always,

This phoniness, this,
this role playing, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

This phoniness, this, this role playing,

And I realized he was
trying to do the same things - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And I realized he was trying to do the same things

Marion had that same goal. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Marion had that same goal.

I respect a person
who will deal with, with... - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I respect a person who will deal with, with...

With my ideas
or with the situation, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

With my ideas or with the situation,

Not, not my credentials - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Not, not my credentials

And if women would just,
you know, uh, uh, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And if women would just, you know, uh, uh,

Well, I don'’t accept
that totally in that... - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Well, I don'’t accept that totally in that...

And my mother said,
"If I'’m charge, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And my mother said, "If I'’m charge,

You talked about, about faith
in the democratic process. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

You talked about, about faith in the democratic process.

You know, when people are
killedon the courthouse steps, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

You know, when people are killedon the courthouse steps,

If you want us to have faith
in the democratic process, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

If you want us to have faith in the democratic process,

You keep me out
of your institutions, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

You keep me out of your institutions,

Kept me out of
yourinstitutions, your institutions - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Kept me out of yourinstitutions, your institutions

Marion wasa very intelligent, very sharp, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Marion wasa very intelligent, very sharp,

I think a lot of it had to do - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I think a lot of it had to do

And my mother really wasn'’t
into social issues. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And my mother really wasn'’t into social issues.

She was an artist, she cared
about how things looked. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She was an artist, she cared about how things looked.

And she was not a deeply
spiritual person at all. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

And she was not a deeply spiritual person at all.

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For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news 24 hours a day filling 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing wars, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today.

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Director: Matt Wolf

Writer: N/A

Production: End Cue,Electric Chinoland,C41

Genre: documentary, biography, history

Year: 2019

MetaScore: 75/100

ImdbRating: 7.0

BoxOffice: $55,632

Released: 15 Nov 2019

Awards: 4 nominations

Homepage: https://recorderfilm.com/