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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

But first, Roger,to you, tell me how rare is this collectionfrom Marion Stokes?

But first, Roger,
to you, tell me how rare is this collection
from Marion Stokes?

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But first, Roger, to you, tell me
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how rare is this collection from Marion Stokes?
Duration
7 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
01:21:18
Uploaded
Jun 12, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
End Cue,Electric Chinoland,C41

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Movie Summary

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.
It'’s an exceptional collection, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
It'’s an exceptional collection,
I first heard of Marion Stokes - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
I first heard of Marion Stokes
I was just amazed that somebody - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
I was just amazed that somebody
We shipped it across the country, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:12
We shipped it across the country,
That we just felt like, you know, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
That we just felt like, you know,
I think the scale of Marion Stokes'’ collection - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
I think the scale of Marion Stokes'’ collection
Nobody in this field has ever heard or seen the like. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Nobody in this field has ever heard or seen the like.
What she recorded is inaccessible to us. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
What she recorded is inaccessible to us.
All the long form programming that she got, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
All the long form programming that she got,
There are probably elements that she has that nobody has. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
There are probably elements that she has that nobody has.
She understood the power of media - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
She understood the power of media
One of my mother'’s dreams was that - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
One of my mother'’s dreams was that
As an only child, you know, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:14
As an only child, you know,
What we'’re offering is to search television by keyword. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
What we'’re offering is to search television by keyword...
They can use the closed captioning as a tag - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
They can use the closed captioning as a tag
More than ever people need access to reliable information - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
More than ever people need access to reliable information
Decades worth of television broadcasts - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Decades worth of television broadcasts
An archive redeems the object of its collecting - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
An archive redeems the object of its collecting
Effectively you will only know afterwards - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:21
Effectively you will only know afterwards
When looking at the underlying instincts - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:18
When looking at the underlying instincts