1948 · Exhibit
Banjo
Bright yellow sky with turquoise cloud bands, turquoise river with a paddle steamer, green tree-lined far bank, yellow wooden clapboard building at right and black curved score bands filling the upper half.
- Year
- 1948
- Maker
- Exhibit
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- yellow
- magenta
- turquoise
- black
Fingerprint: Exhibit's Banjo with enormous magenta letters above a riverfront music scene, line of Black musicians in striped shirts playing banjo and saxophone, woman in wide white hat with orange roses at left, brunette in blue off-shoulder dress at right, paddle steamer on river, yellow clapboard building with PIER 3 sign, hand-painted with teal and rainbow colors
The score values are printed as enormous coloured numerals on the artwork itself rather than shown on reels, with 600,000 in huge magenta letters crowning a black arc at top centre. Dominating the lower half is a crowded painted riverfront music scene - a line of Black banjo, tambourine and saxophone players in bright striped shirts and sun hats - beneath the giant magenta word BANJO. A woman in a wide white hat decorated with orange roses dominates the left foreground, while a brunette in a pale blue off-shoulder ruffled dress is turned away from the viewer on the right. A yellow clapboard building on the right edge carries a white PIER 3 sign and a hand-lettered SHOW Tonite placard.
Setting
- Bright yellow sky with turquoise cloud bands
- Turquoise river with a paddle steamer
- Green tree-lined far bank
- Yellow wooden clapboard building at right
- Black curved score bands filling the upper half
Symbols
- Large coloured score numerals
- Segmented rainbow value ribbon
- Outlined circles containing numbers
- Green victorian lamp post
- Paddle steamer funnels
- Clapboard building
- Musical instruments: banjo, tambourine, saxophone
Lettering
- Teal cursive script above huge magenta slab-serif capitals with heavy black and white outlines; score numerals in rounded outlined display faces coloured per value; small hand-lettered black and red signage on the right building
Themes
- Banjo music
- Riverfront
- Paddle steamer
- Minstrel band
- Carnival
- Pier
- Musicians
- Harbour
Title on it
- Exhibit's banjo
Text on it
- Exhibit's
- BANJO
- 100,000
- 200,000
- 300,000
- 400,000
- 500,000
- 600,000
- 10,000
- 20,000
- 30,000
- 40,000
- 50,000
- 60,000
- 70,000
- 80,000
- 90,000
- 1000
- 2000
- 3000
- 4000
- 5000
- 6000
- 7000
- 8000
- 9000
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- PIER
- SHOW
- Tonite
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Fair-skinned woman in the left foreground, three-quarter view, wide white picture hat trimmed in pink and decorated with orange roses, blonde hair, gold bead necklace, purple corset bodice and white lace puff sleeves, smiling and looking right |
| Man | Partly cropped at the far left edge, pale-skinned man in a black wide-brimmed hat and dark suit, only head and shoulder visible in profile |
| Woman | Brunette woman at right seen from behind, hair in a coiled updo with a white flower, bare shoulders in an off-shoulder pale blue dress with tiered ruffled sleeves, looking left towards the musicians |
| Woman | Black woman seated in the centre foreground facing the viewer, red patterned headwrap, green dress, layered white bead necklace, smiling |
| Man | Black man in a red long-sleeve shirt seated playing a white-headed banjo, head tilted, dark cap |
| Man | Black man in a red-and-blue striped shirt and straw boater hat standing, holding a white tambourine |
| Man | Black man in a yellow shirt and straw hat behind the banjo player, clapping or holding a tambourine |
| Woman | Black woman in a magenta skirt and patterned top with a headwrap, dancing in the middle of the group |
| Man | Black man in a yellow-and-green striped shirt and straw hat at right of the group, playing a saxophone |
| Man | Black man in a green shirt and white straw boater with a black band, low in the group at left, holding a tambourine |
| Vehicle | Blue-and-white paddle steamer with two tall black funnels on the river in the middle distance |
Hand-painted backglass with no score reels - the upper half is a printed score chart. Two black swooping arcs across a turquoise-and-yellow sky carry huge outlined numerals: 100,000 red, 200,000 orange, 300,000 yellow, 400,000 green, 500,000 blue, 600,000 magenta. Below, a segmented rainbow ribbon reads 10,000 through 70,000, with 80,000 and 90,000 on a second ribbon, and black-outlined coloured circles hold 1000 to 9000. Teal cursive Exhibit's sits above enormous magenta slab-serif BANJO letters outlined black and white. The lower half is a riverfront scene: a fair-haired woman in a wide white hat trimmed pink with orange roses; a cropped man in a black hat at far left; a green lamp post; Black musicians and dancers in striped shirts, sun hats and headwraps playing banjo, tambourine and saxophone; a seated woman in a green dress and red headwrap; and a brunette in a pale blue off-shoulder ruffled dress from behind. A paddle steamer with two black funnels sits on the river, and a yellow clapboard building at right carries PIER 3 and SHOW Tonite signs. A bottom black band shows numerals 1 to 10.