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That if we'’re preoccupied with that decade
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

That if we'’re preoccupiedwith that decade, we can'’t look aheadto the next one?

That if we'’re preoccupied
with that decade, we can'’t look ahead
to the next one?

Full Transcript

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That if we'’re preoccupied with that decade,
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we can'’t look ahead to the next one?
Duration
5 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
01:11:18
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.
Understand what happened with the civil rights demonstration - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
Understand what happened with the civil rights demonstration
We may not get there in one yearor even in one term. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
We may not get there in one yearor even in one term.
But America, I have never been more hopeful - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
But America, I have never been more hopeful
I promise you, we as a people will get there. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
I promise you, we as a people will get there.
[cheering] - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
[cheering]
It feels like, um, it feels like anything is now possible. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
It feels like, um, it feels like anything is now possible.
Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can, yes we can! - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!
[audience cheering] - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
[audience cheering]
She was absolutely determined - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
She was absolutely determined
And she'’s like, "Did you eat that already?" - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
And she'’s like, "Did you eat that already?"...
She told me,"Frank, if I'’m like your mother, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
She told me,"Frank, if I'’m like your mother,
It'’s just that I'’m upset with you." - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
It'’s just that I'’m upset with you."
Tanqueray martini, very dry, straight up with a twist. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Tanqueray martini, very dry, straight up with a twist.
If she didn'’t want to drink it all, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
If she didn'’t want to drink it all,
[indistinct television remarks] - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
[indistinct television remarks]
And that'’s what made me notice she was a person, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
And that'’s what made me notice she was a person,
To have that connection withsomebody to just hold your hand - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
To have that connection withsomebody to just hold your hand
Richard, the driver, Anna the aide, and myself, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
Richard, the driver, Anna the aide, and myself,
I was quite pleased with that surrogate family. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
I was quite pleased with that surrogate family.
I'’ve got a deep level of affection for those people - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:16
I'’ve got a deep level of affection for those people