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The problem is some say our memories of that time
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

The problem is some sayour memories of that time often preserve the pleasureand forget the...

The problem is some say
our memories of that time often preserve the pleasure
and forget the pain

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The problem is some say our memories of that time
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often preserve the pleasure and forget the pain.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
01:10:42
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.
♪ Everything, turn, turn, turn ♪ - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:12
♪ Everything, turn, turn, turn ♪
Bruce Elliott is president of the Anti-Nostalgia Association - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
Bruce Elliott is president of the Anti-Nostalgia Association
Well, in the sense thatso much of contemporary culture - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Well, in the sense thatso much of contemporary culture
That if we'’re preoccupied with that decade, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
That if we'’re preoccupied with that decade,
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,