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1948 · Gottlieb

Harvest Moon

Dark banded sky or curtain across the top, rural cartoon landscape with barn or shed structures and stacked round produce or hay bales low in the scene.

Year
1948
Maker
Gottlieb
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Harry Mabs
Art
Roy Parker

Vision analysis

On the backglass

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

Harvest Moon backglass

Backglass

  • red
  • yellow
  • blue
  • green

Fingerprint: Continuous hand-drawn cartoon tableau rather than discrete logo panel filling lower two thirds edge-to-edge with figures and scenery, slanted red "SCORE" label sits amid illustration in mid-lower right, small red-yellow numerals clustered around it, boxy truck or van drawn in flat side view appears low, dark blue-black band carrying curved banner across upper third, flat comic-strip style with heavy black outlines and exaggerated proportions

Distinctive

The backglass is dominated by one continuous hand-drawn cartoon tableau rather than a discrete logo panel, so the whole lower two thirds is filled edge to edge with figures and scenery. A slanted red SCORE label sits amid the illustration in the mid-lower right, with small red and yellow numerals clustered around it. A boxy truck or van drawn in flat side view appears low in the scene. The upper third is a dark blue-black band carrying a curved banner of lettering, contrasting sharply with the bright crowded cartoon below. The drawing style is flat and comic-strip-like, with heavy black outlines and exaggerated character proportions.

Setting

  • Dark banded sky or curtain across the top
  • Rural cartoon landscape with barn or shed structures
  • Stacked round produce or hay bales low in the scene

Symbols

  • Score label
  • Clusters of red and yellow numerals

Lettering

  • Slanted red capital letters for the readable score label; a curved banner of lettering across the dark top band that i could not resolve letter by letter

Themes

  • Rural farm scene
  • Cartoon tableau
  • Fairground or harvest theme

Text on it

  • SCORE
Who and what
Kind Description
Other Several drawn human characters in the lower half, cartoon proportions with heavy black outlines; at least one figure in a light shirt near the centre-left and another in darker clothing toward the right, all in exaggerated comic poses
Vehicle A boxy truck or van drawn in flat side view in the lower scene
Full description

A landscape-format pinball backglass carrying a single large painted cartoon scene rather than a photographic image. The upper third is a dark band of deep blue and near-black with a curved banner of lettering running across it; I could not resolve the individual letters of that banner at the resolution available, so no title text is recorded. Below it the art opens into a busy cartoon tableau of human figures and scenery drawn in flat, saturated colour with heavy black outlines and comic-strip shading. Among the readable elements is the word SCORE set in slanted red capital letters in the mid-lower right area, next to a block of small red and yellow numerals. The lower portion carries several drawn characters in exaggerated poses, a boxy truck or van drawn in side view, and rural scenery including what read as a barn or shed structure and stacked round produce. The palette is dominated by saturated red, yellow, deep blue and green, with the dark upper band framing the lighter, busier illustration below.