1948 · Exhibit
Morocco
Moorish palace interior, three-lobed horseshoe archway with blue-and-white striped voussoirs, red curtain drapery on the right edge, green-to-yellow gradient wall, glowing yellow oval spotlight on the floor and blue-and-white scalloped wave shapes at bottom left.
- 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
- red
- blue
- green
Fingerprint: Smiling belly dancer with vast magenta fringed shawl spread like wings across centre, striped skirt flaring beneath her lit from below by bright yellow oval pool of light, oversized arched yellow-orange MOROCCO lettering with pink cursive Enchante above, two columns of numbered score panels and coloured numbered circles on left, wedding-cake-like stack of tiers on right
A smiling belly dancer with a vast magenta fringed shawl spread like wings across the centre of the glass, her striped skirt flaring beneath her. She is lit from below by a bright yellow oval pool of light that throws a long black shadow to the right. The oversized arched yellow-orange 'MOROCCO' lettering towers over her head with a small pink cursive 'Enchante' above it. Two whole columns of numbered score panels and a row of coloured numbered circles fill the entire left third and top edge. A wedding-cake-like stack of red, white and green tiers sits at the right on a gold stand.
Setting
- Moorish palace interior
- Three-lobed horseshoe archway with blue-and-white striped voussoirs
- Red curtain drapery on the right edge
- Green-to-yellow gradient wall
- Glowing yellow oval spotlight on the floor
- Blue-and-white scalloped wave shapes at bottom left
Symbols
- Row of numbered coloured circles across the top
- Two columns of numbered rectangular score panels on the left
- Glowing white rectangular insert panel
- Bright yellow illuminated insert panel
- Horseshoe arch
- Curtain drapery
- Swimming-wave shapes
- Tiered cake
- Ornate gold stand
Lettering
- Huge arched sans-serif block letters in a yellow-to-orange gradient with a thick black outline and drop shadow; a smaller pink-magenta cursive script word sits above the title. score numbers are narrow white sans-serif inside coloured lozenges and rounded panels.
Themes
- Belly dance
- Middle eastern
- Nightclub
- Exotic dancer
- Orientalist fantasy
- Score panels
Title on it
- Morocco
Text on it
- Enchante
- MOROCCO
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| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Central belly dancer, adult, dark bobbed hair, smiling open-mouthed expression, head tilted back. yellow embellished halter-style bra top, bare midriff and belly button, red-and-white vertically striped flared skirt, tan ankle-strap sandals. a magenta-and-purple fringed shawl spreads from both outstretched raised arms. left leg extended forward pointed, right leg back; stands on a yellow pool of light casting a long black shadow to the right. |
| Man | Small background onlooker at lower left, adult male in a blue jacket with white shirt and red trousers, dark hair, leaning forward and looking toward the dancer. |
| Man | Small background onlooker at lower left, adult male in a dark suit with white shirt and tie, dark hair, facing right. |
| Man | Small background onlooker at lower left, only head and shoulders visible, pale skin and dark hair, facing right. |
| Woman | Small background figure at lower left foreground, only head visible above the wave shapes, green hair or green headdress with a pale face. |
| Creature | Stacked tiered cake or pedestal object at the right: red, white and green decorated cylindrical tiers with triangular and zigzag patterns, on an ornate gold stand, in front of the red curtain. |
A painted cartoon-style backglass dominated by a belly dancer in a red-and-white striped skirt with a yellow two-piece bodice, bare midriff and hips, and a magenta-and-purple fringed shawl flung wide from both outstretched arms. She stands centre stage on a glowing yellow oval spotlight, one sandalled foot pointed, dark bobbed hair, smiling face tipped back. Above her the word 'Enchante' curves in pink cursive script, over a huge arched title 'MOROCCO' in fat yellow-to-orange block letters with heavy black outline. The background is a Moorish palace interior: a three-lobed horseshoe archway with blue-and-white striped voussoirs, red curtain drapery down the right edge, and a warm green-to-yellow wash. The whole left third is a scoring panel: two vertical columns of blue, red, green and cream rectangles carrying white numbers, one lamped window glowing white and one bright yellow insert. Along the top runs a row of circles in purple, red, blue, cream and green, each with a number. At bottom left, behind blue-and-white scalloped wave shapes, a crowd of small onlookers in dark suits leans in, one in a blue jacket with red trousers. At right stands a stacked multi-tier cake on a gold stand beside the dancer.