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Lot 389
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Canibal Holocaust (DOA 58.25 x 43 in.); the second Last Cannibal World (DOA 51.5 x 47 in.); the third Canibal Holocaust (DOA 52 x 45 in.); the fourth U.S. Seals 2 (DOA 38 x 29.25 in.); the fifth Thunder Cop (DOA 38.75 x 32 in.); the sixth Hard to Kill (DOA 43 x 28.5 in.) (large holes to lower left); the seventh The Snake Girl (DOA 56.5 x 44.5 in.); the eighth Rakshak (DOA 44.75 x 34.5 in.) (hole at lower left); 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.