Bizzare hand drawn movie posters from Africa

TBR — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:42:00 +0000

Temporary cinemas became common in Ghana in the 80s because of the video cassette technology. When “mobile cinema” operators traveled from town to town creating these temporary cinemas, they needed movie posters in order to promote the movies. They hired artists were given totally freedom to paint the posters as they wanted, some of them didn’t even watch the movies, and that is why the result was interesting and bizarre movie posters, mostly of horror and trash action movies.

A similar thing happened in Russia where these hand drawn movie posters were made.

In Africa you can have a hyena, baboon or a python as a pet

TBR — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:57:00 +0000

In some countries dangerous wild animals and some dog breeds are banned. In some other places they have probably never heard about those rules. Like in Africa where you can have a hyena or a baboon or maybe a python as a pet.

For them it’s pretty normal putting a chain on a hyena and taking it out for a walk, or maybe ride your motorcycle with a baboon sitting in the back.

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Bizzare hand drawn movie posters from Africa

In Africa you can have a hyena, baboon or a python as a pet