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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I do have a memoryof demonstrations, one which garnered quitea kind of hostile response

I do have a memory
of demonstrations, one which garnered quite
a kind of hostile response

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I do have a memory of demonstrations,
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one which garnered quite a kind of hostile response.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:32
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
End Cue,Electric Chinoland,C41

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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.
Sent to my mother saying, you know, well, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Sent to my mother saying, you know, well,
She was the Philadelphia Chairman - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
She was the Philadelphia Chairman
At her core she was motivated by a belief in human freedom. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
At her core she was motivated by a belief in human freedom.
They spent some time in Mexico - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
They spent some time in Mexico
I found a journal entry from my mother from around that time - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:13
I found a journal entry from my mother from around that time
My mother was fired from her job as a librarian - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
My mother was fired from her job as a librarian
You know, she was definitely spied on by the FBI. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
You know, she was definitely spied on by the FBI.
And we know that she had a file - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
And we know that she had a file
She was justified in feeling being watched. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
She was justified in feeling being watched.
For personality reasons, I think my mother kind of - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
For personality reasons, I think my mother kind of
She made it very difficult on my father - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
She made it very difficult on my father
We are responding to desperate distress calls - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
We are responding to desperate distress calls
The themes that she really liked were that Earth - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
The themes that she really liked were that Earth
That there was this kind of multi-racial, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
That there was this kind of multi-racial,
You know, it was basically kind of televised socialism. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
You know, it was basically kind of televised socialism.
She didn'’t start recording the news immediately. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
She didn'’t start recording the news immediately.
I'’m goin' over here and sit down. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
I'’m goin' over here and sit down.
I do what I usually do, look at TV. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
I do what I usually do, look at TV.
Well, why would you look at TV when it ain'’t workin'? - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Well, why would you look at TV when it ain'’t workin�...
- Snakes, lizards have... - With existence, CIA- - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
- Snakes, lizards have... - With existence, CIA-