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Lot 355
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Broken Arrow (DOA 32 x 22 in.) (small holes); the second Challenge the Masters (DOA 60 x 42 in.); the third Lethal Dragon (DOA 41.5 x 33 in.); the fourth Delta Force 2 (DOA 60.75 x 46 in.); the fifth Land of the Horror: Vampire vs. Horror (DOA 60.75 x 43 in.); the sixth Dangerous Hero (DOA 42 x 31 in.) (slits to sheet, patch to verso); the seventh House of the Demond (DOA 63.5 x 40.5 in.); the eighth Rambo: First Blood (DOA 54.5 x 49.5 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.

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