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1968 · Playmatic

Caravan

Blue sky with white clouds, red banner or drapery and large pale circular disc or wheel.

Year
1968
Maker
Playmatic
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Score reels
Players
1

Vision analysis

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Caravan backglass

Backglass

  • blue
  • red
  • cream
  • white

Fingerprint: Huge pale cream-yellow circular disc or wheel filling centre with colorful costumed figures standing around it like carousel stage, row of enormous grinning clown faces along bottom edge with largest at lower left showing white teeth and red-blue cap, blue sky-cloud band across top

Distinctive

The single most memorable element is an enormous pale cream-yellow circular disc or wheel occupying the whole centre of the backglass, ringed with small colourful costumed figures standing on and around it like a carousel or a stage. Along the very bottom is a row of huge grinning clown faces, the largest at lower left with a wide open mouth full of big white teeth and a red-and-blue cap. A blue sky-and-cloud band with a red script logo at the upper left caps the composition.

Setting

  • Blue sky with white clouds
  • Red banner or drapery
  • Large pale circular disc or wheel

Symbols

  • Large central circular disc or wheel
  • White cloud shapes
  • Rectangular numeral panel near bottom

Lettering

  • Red cursive script logo with light outline at upper left

Themes

  • Circus
  • Clown
  • Carnival
  • Wheel
  • Carousel
Who and what
Kind Description
Other Clown or jester head at lower left, orange-yellow skin, wide open grinning mouth with a row of large white teeth, red and blue cap
Other Further large grinning faces in a row along the bottom edge, only partly visible
Woman Small figure in a bright costume standing on the rim of the central cream disc, red and blue clothing
Woman Another small costumed figure at the right of the central disc, bright yellow/red clothing
Other Several additional small human figures scattered around the rim of the central disc
Full description

A painted, cartoon-style backglass dominated by a huge pale cream-and-yellow circular disc or wheel filling the centre of the panel, ringed by radiating wedges and crowded with small brightly-dressed human figures standing around its rim as if on a stage or carousel. A broad blue sky band with white cloud shapes runs across the top, behind a red banner or drapery shape at upper right and a red script logo with light outline at upper left. Along the bottom edge is a row of large grinning character faces, most clearly a clown or jester head at lower left with a wide open mouth showing a row of big white teeth, a red and blue cap, and orange-yellow skin tones. Near the bottom centre-right sits a pale rectangular panel containing dark numerals or marks. Overall the palette is blue, red, cream-yellow and white, in flat comic-book airbrush colouring with heavy black outlines. No score reels or alphanumeric display are visible. Small corner print and copyright text are present as dark specks but cannot be resolved at this image size.