Comments on: Ghanavision: Hand-Painted Film Posters from Ghana

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:43:44 +0000

Bongout also had an exhibition in their Berlin gallery this summer.
It was a great show !

They also sell some of the posters from their own collection.

http://www.xn--bongot-0ya.com/artists/ghana_movie_posters_2.html

By: joel

joel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:38:34 +0000

thank you kindly Jeff.

By: joel

joel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:37:34 +0000

Jeff, I’m over it. Do what you wish. It’s not like they’re my images, and I know the fight for internet etiquette is a hopeless one…one just expects some form of it from a big site like this. It is pretty ridiculous how you delete/edit comments to save face, but its your site and you should run it however makes you feel the best.
Best to you and your site.
-joel

By: morlockjeff

morlockjeff — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:44:46 +0000

OK, I have updated the post with various Ghana film poster sources. Are there any others I should add for those who are interested? My initial intention was to raise awareness of this great book from Bongout. I’m sorry I didn’t list sources and links the first time.

By: morlockjeff

morlockjeff — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:49:05 +0000

Michael, you’re thinking of THE CRAWLING EYE aka The Trollenberg Terror

By: Michael Dexter

Michael Dexter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:21:34 +0000

Iam looking for a 1950’s movie set in the Swiss Alps sort of like the The Mist. Opening scene three climbers on a mountain one climber screams and falls .He is caught, but when he is pulled up he has no head. The story is set in a pass in the
Alps. There is mist like fog that hids creatures with a head and a bunch of arms. Any help. Thank you

By: J

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:46:47 +0000

Jeff, I have been following the comments…and don’t understand why you have been deleting them rather than addressing them from the beginning. As Joel said, it’s a matter of etiquette to cite image sources. As a blogger it seems like you would be well aware of the citing practices. I am probably making this a bigger deal than most but this is because of who you are. You aren’t a novice blogger, you’re part of a respected site, and accordingly i thought you would also be respectful.

By: joel

joel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:14:32 +0000

Jeff – several of the pictures clearly did come from my site. You can easily tell the ones that I scanned/posted from the gray around the edges, which I filled to match the background of my blog.
BUT the greater point is that you should not just take images from “all over the web” without citing or linking the sites from which you took them. This is proper etiquette (decency really) and in many cases legally required because of licensing.
Thank you for acknowledging my comment this time around, and not deleting it (at least not the whole thing) as you did before. But you still have failed to cite or link where you took the images.

By: Rotterdammerung

Rotterdammerung — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:46:14 +0000

“As somebody who is actually from New Zealand I’d like to point out that nobody there would recognize any of those actors.”

Matthew, just wait until New Zealand gets color internet and we introduce “downloading” to you! You’ll be a Van Damme man faster than you can say Goodbye Pork Pie!

By: morlockjeff

morlockjeff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:02:04 +0000

Actually Joel, images of Ghana film posters are all over the web and most of the ones I got didn’t come from the sites you list above but I’m happy to include them anyway. I actually scanned a few from the book too which is highly recommended and you can buy it at http://www.bongout.com. Maybe they’ll do a sequel.