Movie Mojo: Hand-Painted Posters From Ghana August 25, 2011

Starting in the 1970s, itinerant cinema entrepreneurs traveled from village to village showing foreign films and utilizing hand-painted movie posters to advertise their wares. Painted on flour sacks by a wide variety of artists, these posters displayed the wild imagination these movies inspired. Posters advertising West African films often expressed the changing relationship of West Africans to Christianity and indigenous religions. On display are unique interpretations of classic Bollywood, Hollywood, and Kung Fu films, including Godzilla and 7th Voyage of Sinbad.