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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

If you took away everything, you would take away Marion

If you took away everything, you would take away Marion

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If you took away everything,
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you would take away Marion.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
01:02:28
Uploaded
Jun 10, 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.
[applauding] - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
[applauding]
This one I love, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
This one I love,
The difference between a hoarder and a collector - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
The difference between a hoarder and a collector
They think it'’s a pile of junk, then this person'’s a hoarder. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
They think it'’s a pile of junk, then this person'...
If they think, "Oh my God, no one'’s ever kept this before?" - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
If they think, "Oh my God, no one'’s ever kept thi...
I'’d say, if this were to go to auction today, conservatively, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
I'’d say, if this were to go to auction today, conserva...
Thank you so much for bringing it in. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Thank you so much for bringing it in.
When you have a institution like a museum or a university - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
When you have a institution like a museum or a university
But when you'’re one lone person, and especially a woman, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
But when you'’re one lone person, and especially a woma...
We shouldn'’t ascribe rationality to those in power - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
We shouldn'’t ascribe rationality to those in power
All news had to be kept - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
All news had to be kept
When something was important, she would want me to sit - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
When something was important, she would want me to sit
A neighborhood watch volunteer told Sanford, Florida police - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
A neighborhood watch volunteer told Sanford, Florida police
Okay, we don'’t need you to do that. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Okay, we don'’t need you to do that.
She wanted to, like, compare - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
She wanted to, like, compare
We are going to demand equal justice under the law. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
We are going to demand equal justice under the law.
We are going to declare poor people'’s independence - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
We are going to declare poor people'’s independence
Let the world pray, but it'’ll be sorry. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Let the world pray, but it'’ll be sorry.
A black insurance man whose slaying - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
A black insurance man whose slaying
We want them to keep seeing it, if they keep seeing it, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
We want them to keep seeing it, if they keep seeing it,