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My mother was fired from her job as a librarian
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

My mother was firedfrom her job as a librarian and I'’m pretty sure it had todo with her...

My mother was fired
from her job as a librarian and I'’m pretty sure it had to
do with her being a Communist

Full Transcript

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My mother was fired from her job as a librarian
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and I'’m pretty sure it had to do with her being a Communist.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:11
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.
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-
There'’s a second kind of thing that the CIA does - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
There'’s a second kind of thing that the CIA does
This could involve giving money - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
This could involve giving money
It might involve aidingin the overthrow of a government - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
It might involve aidingin the overthrow of a government
It could even mean arranging - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
It could even mean arranging
Your newspapers, radio, television, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Your newspapers, radio, television,
No dissent or oppositionis allowed in the public media. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
No dissent or oppositionis allowed in the public media.