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I first heard of Marion Stokes
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I first heard of Marion Stokes from an email from Michael

I first heard of Marion Stokes from an email from Michael

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I first heard of Marion Stokes
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from an email from Michael.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
01:21:29
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 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
It was hard for me and the family, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
It was hard for me and the family,
My heart and my best intentionsstill tell me that'’s true, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:01
My heart and my best intentionsstill tell me that'’s tr...