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Lot 290
Three Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first for American Ninja (58 x 49.5 in.); the second for American Street Fighter (39.5 x 28.25 in.); and the third for Starship Troopers (44.5 x 35.5 in.); all are hand painted in colors on a repurposed flour sack, unstretched.

This lot to be sold on day 1, Wednesday, October 3 (Lots 1-948)

Auction by order of the United States Bankruptcy Courts of the Eastern District of North Carolina. All items sold as-is. No returns. All sales final.

From the Complete and Important Collection of NOA Living, Raleigh, North Carolina

Beginning in the early 1980s with the availability of VCRs, TVs, and generators, a mobile movie industry boomed in Ghana. Entrepreneurs commissioned local artists to paint eye-catching and colorful advertising for the films. This artistic movement proliferated until the early 1990s when these unique and creative works were replaced by mass produced printed posters.

Creased; some rubbing to surfaces; Starship Troopers with tear to sack.