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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

When you have a institutionlike a museum or a university and they begin to collect,you...

When you have a institution
like a museum or a university and they begin to collect,
you don'’t tend to question why they'’re doing it

Full Transcript

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When you have a institution like a museum or a university
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and they begin to collect, you don'’t tend to question
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why they'’re doing it.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
01:03:27
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.
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,
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,