Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters

The first Evil Thing (DOA 60.5 x 42.5 in.); the second Marcus "D" Millionaire (DOA 65 x 45.5 in.); the third Candidates for Hell (DOA 52.5 x 46 in.); the fourth Brenya (DOA 64 x 45 in.); the fifth Æon Flux (DOA 40 x 34 in.) (later selvedge); the sixth Cat of Darkness (DOA 66 x 45.5 in.); the seventh One More (DOA 57.5 x 44.5 in.) (tear and hole to sheet); the eighth Magye Maniso (DOA 57.5 x 45 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.

Fair condition - creasing, rubbing, and pigment loss to each.