Ghana Movie Posters
In order to drum up business for local movie theaters in africa most notably in ghana theater owners would commission local artists to paint movie posters.
Ghana movie posters. Some of the nollywood and ghanaian film posters such. A mobile cinema was created in ghana by entrepreneurial video operators who traveled by truck creating open air cinemas with a tv vcr or dvd player vhs and dvd movies a gas powered generator and of course these hand painted posters. When frank armah began painting posters for ghanaian movie theaters in the mid 1980s. The posters are in effect a visual time capsule and reveal much about ghana and west africa as the 20th century ticked over into the 21st.
If you ordered and haven t received a shipping confirmation expect that by monday 8 24. Written by jacopo prisco cnn. Mobile cinema businesses became wildly popular in ghana in the 1980s and 1990s. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands affordable prices.
In the late 1980s mobile cinema businesses were burgeoning in ghana. A ghanaian movie poster for fright night by the artist joe mensah ernie wolfe gallery. When frank armah began painting posters for ghanaian movie theaters in the mid 1980s he was given a clear mandate. As a way to attract viewers proprietors commissioned local artists to paint film posters with creative license.
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