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We shouldn'’t ascribe rationality to those in power
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

We shouldn'’t ascriberationality to those in power and irrationalityto those without it

We shouldn'’t ascribe
rationality to those in power and irrationality
to those without it

Full Transcript

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We shouldn'’t ascribe rationality to those in power
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and irrationality to those without it.
Duration
7 seconds
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26
Timestamp in Movie
01:03:45
Uploaded
Jun 12, 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.
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,
The group calls itself MOVE, M-O-V-E. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
The group calls itself MOVE, M-O-V-E.
Its membership is predominantly black, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:14
Its membership is predominantly black,
I presume somewhere in that archive - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
I presume somewhere in that archive
Going back and watching in detail - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:12
Going back and watching in detail
Police dropped a percussion bomb onto this house - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Police dropped a percussion bomb onto this house
Last night, inside the headquarters - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Last night, inside the headquarters
Heavily armed members of a radical group known as MOVE. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
Heavily armed members of a radical group known as MOVE.
Martin Luther King said that because of television, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
Martin Luther King said that because of television,
If you had things like Rodney King, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
If you had things like Rodney King,
They can get it on videotape - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
They can get it on videotape