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Auction History Result h036 GOONA GOONA/AFRICA SPEAKS 1sh R50s exploitive jungle safari wild animal documentary! Date Sold 9/27/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1950s) Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this double-bill was first released in the 1940s by Sack. Sack mainly distributed African American exploitation films in the 1930s and 1940s before re-emerging in the 1960s. Sometime in the 1950s, Classic Pictures re-released this double bull and created a wild one-sheet to promote the film. Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades 
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