Thanks Monster_A_Gogo
The Alliance Francaise of Nairobi is a very cultural center, every year they have the European Movie Month (forgot the exact name) during which they broadcast European movies subtitled in English. In 2019, it was their 70 years so they contacted me to see if I could do a exhibition covering all theatrical movies (not documentaries) filmed in Kenya. I crosschecked against my stock and to my surprise I actually had almost all titles (some rereleases or foreign posters or even small programmes). I had four months to prepare everything. Selecting the posters was the easy task, then I had to the all calculation for cutting the perspex glass and optimize the cut, I bought the 4x8ft sheet uncut and had them delivered to a guy who cut them to size; went to see a cheap local guy who did the backboard to size too. I ordered some special clips from this company in Spain -
https://www.sous-verre-a-pince.fr/5-accessoires-pour-sous-verre-a-pince Getting it in Kenya was the stressful part, package had to be shipped to my dad who reshipped it to Kenya, and it took some damn time so my dad ordered another lot and had it sent in express. But both packages finally arrived before the exhibition (two days). Kids and wife helped for the set-up. We did the two 3-sheets at the entrance then went chronologically, from 1931 (Trader Horn, first ever production filmed in Africa, and in Kenya) to Wilby Conspiracy (1972, the first anti-Apartheid movie filmed in Kenya with Sidney Poitier who also came in Kenya for "Something of Value" during the 50s and the Mau Mau liberation movement (don't say rebel, ahaha).
Because of the colonial past and considering that most movies are a dark and savage narrative, I had to do labels. No way you can just exhibit without labels. So I wrote up text for each piece to ensure that there is the basic information and also a short description, trying to include historical fact or focus more on the Kenyan side (Kenyan actors, etc.).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18FEoSkzwR4od2t6ICBCMFc0heaQw8YaA/view?usp=sharingIt's there above, there are some facts, especially the meeting between Sean Connery (playing his first second role in Tanzania/Kenya under newly licensed Tarzan sold to a British company and Albert R. Broccoli and Illing Arven (Warwick Films - UK) who did four movies in Kenya in the 50s before changing to Eon Production; Eon production only one non-James film, called "Call Me Bwana" and you can see a tribute of this movie in "From Russian with Love" when get out of Ekberg' mouth by going through the billboard)... I would love to do a nice
table book, need an copywriter or an editor, that's it... and the budget.
Here are the pictures of the exhibition
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=african.vintage.art.posters&set=a.5654002344672805