Dragonette / 4-Belles

A late-1960s electro-mechanical pop-pinball playfield, photographed whole and flat-lit against a dark ground. The painted wooden deck is dominated by a teal-green background with cream, cherry-red, gold and black accents, and a fan of radiating arrow-head shapes carrying the numerals 1 through 8 down the left and right lanes. Three round pop bumpers with tall translucent red caps sit across the upper third, flanked by a curved metal ball guide rail and a wire-frame return lane. Down the centre is a tall cream-and-red diamond of arrow segments with a circular target in the middle, then a cream shooting-lane area with a red banner, a bank of four chrome lane guides, and two white flipper bats at the bottom. Two pale-blue apron cards print the rules, with black instruction text. The cabinet sides show heavy scuffing, chipped paint and dulled wood, and the plastics are hazy and yellowed.

A square, wood-framed backglass filled with flat mid-century comic-strip artwork in a limited palette of sky blue, red, yellow, black and white, all heavily outlined in black. Across the top hangs a row of red triangular pennants carrying the digits 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 in black, each on its own flag, followed by a long red arrow reading 'Million' in yellow. Below that, tilted parallelogram score panels in white and red read 100,000, 200,000, 300,000, 400,000, 500,000, 600,000, 700,000, 800,000 and 900,000, fanning down the left side and across the top. The centre is a dark navy rounded shield carrying a small arched white maker line over the big yellow title '4-BELLES', with four small round portrait medallions of smiling women in a row beneath it. The lower half is a beach scene: a stocky bearded man in a red-white-and-green striped shirt, a tall blonde in a blue polka-dot two-piece shouting with her arms flung up, a dark-haired man in a white peaked cap and white T-shirt marked 'ANNA' pointing, and a short red-uniformed figure in a peaked cap. Speech balloons read 'WHAT'S COOLIN' MATEY?', 'WATER BOILER', 'BEANS', 'AT LAST! CRAB PAW HAMBURGER', 'BUBBLES' and 'RING DONG'. A maroon arrow at bottom left reads 'Points'.

Painted wooden-framed backglass with a green header band across the top carrying the word 'Million' in large white script, and a second green strip below it with only the lower halves of lettering visible. The main field is a comic-book cartoon in saturated purple, blue, brick red and yellow. Across the centre, arched over a purple brick wall, is the title 'Gottlieb’s' in small yellow script above 'DRAGONETTE' in huge arched block capitals, white with a heavy red drop shadow and black outline. Down the left side, seven white scroll panels labelled 'FACT NO.' cascade diagonally, each with a red or green number: 100,000, 200,000, 300,000, 400,000, 500,000, 600,000, then 700,000, 800,000 and 900,000 running left-to-right along the top. Centre-left a blonde woman in an off-the-shoulder blue top, red polka-dot skirt and red shoes leans back laughing, with a scarlet-and-green parrot on a perch beside her. A trench-coated man in a tan hat and blue trousers crouches at a brick arch aiming a pistol while holding a paper. Bottom-left a small detective in an orange raincoat and green hat kneels with a magnifying glass over a spilled green bottle. Bottom-right a man in a red cap and blue striped shirt stirs a pickle barrel marked 'PICKLES'. A white card reads 'Double' in red script, and 'POINTS' is printed in large red-outlined white letters at the bottom left.