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I knew that he didn'’t work
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

I knew that he didn'’t work, '’cause he was alwaysaround in the daytime

I knew that he didn'’t work, '’cause he was always
around in the daytime

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I knew that he didn'’t work,
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'’cause he was always around in the daytime.
Duration
4 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:00
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.
It was real '’60s type of thing and we'’d hang out together. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
It was real '’60s type of thing and we'’d hang out...
His quest was always, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
His quest was always,
This phoniness, this, this role playing, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
This phoniness, this, this role playing,
And I realized he was trying to do the same things - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
And I realized he was trying to do the same things
Marion had that same goal. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Marion had that same goal.
I respect a person who will deal with, with... - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
I respect a person who will deal with, with...
With my ideas or with the situation, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
With my ideas or with the situation,
Not, not my credentials - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Not, not my credentials
And if women would just, you know, uh, uh, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
And if women would just, you know, uh, uh,
Well, I don'’t accept that totally in that... - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
Well, I don'’t accept that totally in that...
And my mother said, "If I'’m charge, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
And my mother said, "If I'’m charge,
You talked about, about faith in the democratic process. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
You talked about, about faith in the democratic process.
You know, when people are killedon the courthouse steps, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:12
You know, when people are killedon the courthouse steps,
If you want us to have faith in the democratic process, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
If you want us to have faith in the democratic process,
You keep me out of your institutions, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
You keep me out of your institutions,
Kept me out of yourinstitutions, your institutions - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Kept me out of yourinstitutions, your institutions
Marion wasa very intelligent, very sharp, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Marion wasa very intelligent, very sharp,
I think a lot of it had to do - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
I think a lot of it had to do
And my mother really wasn'’t into social issues. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
And my mother really wasn'’t into social issues.
She was an artist, she cared about how things looked. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
She was an artist, she cared about how things looked.