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You know, I was this guy from the street corner
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

You know, I was this guyfrom the street corner and this is this rich guyin Chestnut Hill

You know, I was this guy
from the street corner and this is this rich guy
in Chestnut Hill

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You know, I was this guy from the street corner
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and this is this rich guy in Chestnut Hill.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:28:55
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.
I knew that he didn'’t work, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
I knew that he didn'’t work,
It was real '’60s type of thing and we'’d hang out together. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
It was real '’60s type of thing and we'’d hang out...
His quest was always, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
His quest was always,
This phoniness, this, this role playing, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
This phoniness, this, this role playing,
And I realized he was trying to do the same things - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
And I realized he was trying to do the same things
Marion had that same goal. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Marion had that same goal.
I respect a person who will deal with, with... - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
I respect a person who will deal with, with...
With my ideas or with the situation, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
With my ideas or with the situation,
Not, not my credentials - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Not, not my credentials
And if women would just, you know, uh, uh, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
And if women would just, you know, uh, uh,
Well, I don'’t accept that totally in that... - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
Well, I don'’t accept that totally in that...
And my mother said, "If I'’m charge, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
And my mother said, "If I'’m charge,
You talked about, about faith in the democratic process. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
You talked about, about faith in the democratic process.
You know, when people are killedon the courthouse steps, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:12
You know, when people are killedon the courthouse steps,
If you want us to have faith in the democratic process, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
If you want us to have faith in the democratic process,
You keep me out of your institutions, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
You keep me out of your institutions,
Kept me out of yourinstitutions, your institutions - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Kept me out of yourinstitutions, your institutions
Marion wasa very intelligent, very sharp, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Marion wasa very intelligent, very sharp,
I think a lot of it had to do - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
I think a lot of it had to do
And my mother really wasn'’t into social issues. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
And my mother really wasn'’t into social issues.