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Lot 383
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Blood Brothers (DOA 58.5 x 40 in.); the second Obosam Tumi (DOA 44 x 40 in.); the third Kalidor (DOA 45 x 39 in.); the fourth Rituals (DOA 65 x 43 in.); the fifth The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (DOA 40 x 33.5 in.); the sixth Hands of Steel (DOA 40 x 31.5 in.); the seventh Exit Wounds (DOA 40.5 x 32.5 in.); and the eighth The Little Ninja Dragon (DOA 39 x 32 in.) (small tear to center); 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.

Good to fair condition - each with creasing, rubbing, some pigment loss.