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Our screening was followed by an online Q&A with director Matt Wolf.
For thirty years, Marion Stokes secretly video-taped everything on TV, twenty-four hours a day. Starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979, she witnessed the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle, which burgeoned across the channels and transformed the way we receive – and dispose of – news.
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Recorder: The Marion Strokes ProjectA rising star of the Communist Party in Philadelphia, Marion Stokes was a civil-rights era radical and public intellectual. Aware of how easily history could be lost or re-written, she felt compelled to record everything; to rescue fact from the compost heap of yesterday’s news.