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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Going back and watchingin detail how those stories get told, what sort of...

Going back and watching
in detail how those stories get told, what sort of justifications
are offered, what sort of unanswered
questions remain

Full Transcript

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Going back and watching in detail
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how those stories get told,
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what sort of justifications are offered,
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what sort of unanswered questions remain.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
01:05:31
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.
Police dropped a percussion bomb onto this house - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Police dropped a percussion bomb onto this house
Last night, inside the headquarters - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Last night, inside the headquarters
Heavily armed members of a radical group known as MOVE. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
Heavily armed members of a radical group known as MOVE.
Martin Luther King said that because of television, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
Martin Luther King said that because of television,
If you had things like Rodney King, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
If you had things like Rodney King,
They can get it on videotape - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
They can get it on videotape
Well, what happens to the policewhen they break the law? - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
Well, what happens to the policewhen they break the law?
That question'’s back again because of Monday'’s beating - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
That question'’s back again because of Monday'’s b...
Granted the video doesn'’t tell you everything, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
Granted the video doesn'’t tell you everything,
But isn'’t it a stretch to try to use - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
But isn'’t it a stretch to try to use
We are more apt to be the victims - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
We are more apt to be the victims
Police use of deadly force against Hispanics - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Police use of deadly force against Hispanics
A few weeks ago in South Carolina, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:17
A few weeks ago in South Carolina,
Three New York police detectives, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
Three New York police detectives,
Time and time again, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Time and time again,
Blue is the uniform who kill them, and white is the race - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Blue is the uniform who kill them, and white is the race
We went into a little bit of history'’s web of violence. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
We went into a little bit of history'’s web of violence...
And I just wonder and if this is related in any way - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
And I just wonder and if this is related in any way
Those in power are able to write their own history, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Those in power are able to write their own history,
And, I think an extension of that certainly would be - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:16
And, I think an extension of that certainly would be