Mobile Cinema Vans
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Bay Area Video Coalition!
I’ll be giving a talk about audio-visual preservation in Ghana and the forthcoming video documentary my friend Anita Afonu is making about these issues at 6 pm this Thursday, September 15, 2011 at the wonderful and amazing Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco, CA. AV Preservation in the Not-So-Global Digital World Post-colonial African filmmakers… Continue reading
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“Do not panic. Government is protecting the public.”
I recently found a large collection of glass slides at the Information Services Department Central Film Library. They were originally used by the cinema vans for government educational campaigns on cholera prevention, voting, census, and various government programs. Judging by the Afro hairdos in some of the photos and a few dated slides, I would… Continue reading
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Challenge Cinema Today – Christian Mobile Cinema
As my research interests have increasingly broadened to the various historical and contemporary uses of mobile cinema van technology across Sub-Saharan Africa, I was recently very excited to learn about Challenge Enterprises of Ghana’s mobile cinema van program called Challenge Cinema Today. This company largely focuses on the selling of bibles and other Christian literature… Continue reading
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Mobile Cinema Van visits Prampram, Ghana
Based on interviews with former ISD mobile cinema commentators these photos were probably taken sometime in the late 1960s. Photos from Ghana’s Information Service Department Photo Library. This work is licensed under Creative Commons. Continue reading
Jennifer Blaylock 