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Old 09-10-2009, 01:54 AM
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Film Poster Paintings from Ghana

Stolen from this cool site...


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.

In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired - often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies.





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Old 09-10-2009, 02:07 AM
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Some of those are way off.But they do kick alot of ass.
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Old 09-10-2009, 02:55 AM
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Haha does that fish look like what I think it looks like? :)

I'd seen the Sleepwalkers one but never knew what it was taken from. Interesteing read thanks for that dude!
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Old 09-10-2009, 12:39 PM
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Hahaha...the Evil Dead II one is my favourite. Looks like Stallone.

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Old 09-11-2009, 12:56 AM
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Who did the posters?
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Old 09-11-2009, 12:56 AM
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The first one is super
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