n the 1980s, several local businessmen in Ghana would travel from town to town in order to make money from their "mobile cinema," which was nothing more than a truck equipped with a VCR and several bootleg copies of Hollywood films. Movie-goers would pay a fee in order to enjoy these movies played in the back of the truck. To promote the screenings, local artists were hired to paint large posters on used canvas flour sacks. The artists were given the freedom to paint the posters as they desired, often without even seeing the films first. We now have these posters for movies