Can Can

Playfield of an electro-mechanical game mounted in a bare honey-coloured wooden cabinet, with a pale tan lower deck and no painted apron. At the very top, behind a row of chrome reels, the title COCKTAILS is printed in wide red-orange block capitals with red star shapes inside several letters, backed by a yellow cloud banner and musical staves with black notes. Directly above the title sit three round windows: a serif capital A on the left, a filled cocktail/martini glass with radiating lines in the middle, and a stemmed glass on the right, with WHEN and two red arrows printed beneath them. Two painted women with red hair in red-orange dresses flank the reel bank, singing among the notes. Below the reels sit four numbered circles 1, 2, 3, 4 and three pop bumpers with translucent blue skirts and yellow domes. A fan of drop targets runs down both sides, flanked by round red targets numbered 5 to 10, while the centre carries a red SPECIAL BONUS WHEN LIT and MILLION BONUS WHEN LIT panel over a large inverted red triangle reading MILLION BONUS with circles 1 to 5. Dominant colours are pale wood, red, cream-yellow and blue.

Photographed backbox of an electro-mechanical music-hall themed game, seen in a wooden cabinet with the glass front open. The backglass upper half is a bright blue starfield with white stars, scattered coloured balloons and confetti streamers, split by an orange banner reading MILLIONS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Centre is a tall purple shield outlined with pink marquee bulbs carrying a yellow script logo above two enormous yellow block letters reading CAN CAN, with a small three-window mechanical score reel reading 732 set into the shield. On both sides are coloured score values with small circle decorations (200 green, 300 yellow, 400 pink, 500 orange, 600 orange, 700 green, 800 yellow, 900 red, 80 000 green). Seven large yellow-and-red circular medallions run in an arc across the lower blue field, each with a simple black line icon: an Eiffel Tower, a wine glass, a musical note, a person playing a bugle or instrument, a French flag, a star with a burst, and a shooting star. Balloon-tables read BALL IN PLAY on the left and EXTRA BALL on the right. Below, green ball-in-play ovals 1 2 3 4 5 and EXTRA BALL sit above a large yellow GAME OVER. The lower half is painted as a theatre interior with a gold proscenium arch, blue and green side curtains, packed cartoon spectators in balcony boxes at left and right, and a long front-row row of seated cartoon audience heads and shoulders, men and women in hats, seen from behind, watching a lit stage.

A rectangular backglass photographed at a steep angle so the artwork curves like a barrel. The ground is a light sky blue scattered with small white four-pointed stars. Dominating the centre is a tall, shield-shaped blue panel edged with a dark red outline and a white keyline, carrying the title in two stacked lines of tall, narrow, bright yellow block capitals with white and black drop shadows: CAN over CAN. A short cursive script word sits above the title in the peak of the shield. A small white square panel is inset between the two title lines. Flanking the shield on both left and right are angled score panels set on orange and yellow ground, each carrying a row of large numerals - red, blue, yellow, green, orange and white digits with heavy black outlines, plus small clusters of coloured bonus letters beneath them. A second, finer row of red numerals runs across the very top edge. Below the title area, a horizontal band shows a row of large yellow and orange circles, some containing a red band across the middle, interspersed with green and red balloon- or globe-like shapes. At lower left a white rectangle reads BALL IN PLAY in red block capitals, and beneath it a row of red-outlined circles each holding a white numeral from 1 to 6. The lower portion of the image shows the playfield area, blue-green with a repeating pattern of star and circle targets.