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But I think my mother tracked her down and found out
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

But I think my mother trackedher down and found out that she had raisedsubsequent...

But I think my mother tracked
her down and found out that she had raised
subsequent children, so she felt very
betrayed by that

Full Transcript

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But I think my mother tracked her down and found out
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that she had raised subsequent children,
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so she felt very betrayed by that.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:48
Uploaded
Jun 11, 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.
I think that, that early sense of abandonment - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
I think that, that early sense of abandonment
But she still held those, you know, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
But she still held those, you know,
She had, I think, heightened and unrealistic standards - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
She had, I think, heightened and unrealistic standards
[distant cheering] - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
[distant cheering]
Lift off, and it has cleared the tower. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Lift off, and it has cleared the tower.
I think maybe initially she made efforts. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
I think maybe initially she made efforts.
I mean I would visit some and she was friendly, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
I mean I would visit some and she was friendly,
Everything had to be together. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
Everything had to be together.
I remember her saying, "Oh, you know, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
I remember her saying, "Oh, you know,
There was no sense of sort of being a family with them, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
There was no sense of sort of being a family with them,
Gossip usually affirms some sort of a norm - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:13
Gossip usually affirms some sort of a norm
And who decides what'’s normal, and I think maybe - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:12
And who decides what'’s normal, and I think maybe
If I would disagree with her, I'’d get blasted. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
If I would disagree with her, I'’d get blasted.
And Michael said, basically, she was like that, too. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
And Michael said, basically, she was like that, too.
We would have a six-hour argument with her. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
We would have a six-hour argument with her.
It was a long point of contention between her and me - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
It was a long point of contention between her and me
You know, my mother, um, really could... - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
You know, my mother, um, really could...
Could quite be very cruel if she thought you weren'’t - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Could quite be very cruel if she thought you weren'’t
It was kind of like a two-day argument going on - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
It was kind of like a two-day argument going on
And my mother said, "Well, nice to have known you." - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:13
And my mother said, "Well, nice to have known you."...