I found this great blog post about old movie posters from Ghana on Ephemera Assemblyman. As a side note, he said he got the inspiration for his post from one of my favorite blogs out there, A Journey Around My Skull, another blog that is definitely worth checking out if you are into art.

“In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for ‘mobile cinema’ operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.”

They would make these posters to promote the movies. A funny side note, he said they often didn’t even see the movie before they were asked to draw these, which I find pretty hilarious. I thought I’d share some of the pictures.

Check out the rest of the pictures as well. Just a warning, some of them are pretty graphic.

Tags: art, interesting reading

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