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Auction History Result 5g228 GOONA GOONA/AFRICA SPEAKS 8 LCs '40s exploitive jungle safari wild animal documentary! Date Sold 2/19/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) the circa 1940s double-bill release ("2 All-Time Great Thrills Films! In one super spectacle!"; "The Afro-Goona Show"; "Wild - Weird - Wondrous") of Kriss (also released as "Goona Goona"), the 1932 Armand Denis and Andre Roosevelt French/U.S. Polynesian documentary. Note that Armand Denis had explored Africa and India in the 1930s with his wife Leila Roosevelt, and had produced and directed many short subjects with footage of their travels that he and his wife had shot themselves. In 1948, the 52 year-old Armand Denis divorced Roosevelt, and married 34 year-old Michaela Holdsworth, and together they made four movies (very similar to those he had made with his first wife) AND Africa Speaks, the 1930 Walter Futter jungle safari wild animal documentary ("The strangest romance ever filmed!"; "Thrilling adventure in the unexplored regions of Equatorial Africa"; "Produced by the Colorado African Expedition, Inc.") starring Paul Hoefler (who was the man who went to Africa, and who wrote a book of the same name about his experiences) and narrated by Lowell Thomas. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this item contains some nudity, so we have placed a white bar over those areas for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual item does not have the white bars.
UPDATED 02/17/2015: Note that a knowledgeable collector pointed out that this double-bill is from the 1940s and not the 1950s as we initially listed. Condition: good. The cards have varying degrees of pinholes, scuffs, stains, smudges and/or tears of varying lengths around the edges. One has partially erased pencil marks and white stains at upper left. Please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the condition of this item prior to placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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