1965 · Williams
Moulin Rouge
Known for ABC saucers, Bonus saucer and 1-10. Yellow sky, french montmartre street with shuttered townhouses, windmill with lattice sails, cream house with steep shingled roof and geranium window boxes, green-domed turret with gold trim and canvas awning.
- Year
- 1965
- Maker
- Williams
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 1
Known for
- saucers
ABC saucers
- saucer
Bonus saucer
- Goal
1-10
On the playfield
- powder blue
- yellow
- red
- orange
- 2 flippers
- 5 pop bumpers
- 1 spinner
- 2 target banks
- 2 slingshots
Holes 2
- ABC saucers saucers
- Bonus saucer saucer
Bumpers 2
- Center blue bumper
- Red bumpers
Target 1
- 7-8-9-10 standup targets
Lane 1
- Out lanes
Control 1
- Upper rollover button button
On the backglass
Who and what
- woman Young adult blonde woman, shoulder-length hair, short red dress, gold pendant, red high-heeled shoes, seated sideways on a yellow folding stool at left with legs crossed, one hand resting on a grey-blue cylindrical roller, looking towards the viewer
- man Man in a dark blue beret and maroon shirt with a broad toothy grin, peering over the seated woman's shoulder at upper left of centre
- man Man in a red shirt, blue trousers and a red beret at right, crouching on one knee, one arm raised to touch the roller, the other hand holding a paint brush, looking left
- man Man in a brown jacket and blue cap in the right background, in profile facing left
- woman Small female figure with dark hair looking out of a green-shuttered window behind the roller at centre right
Setting
- Yellow sky
- French montmartre street with shuttered townhouses
- Windmill with lattice sails
- Cream house with steep shingled roof and geranium window boxes
- Green-domed turret with gold trim
- Canvas awning
Text on it
- Williams
- MOULIN ROUGE
- PLAY
- FLIPPER SKILL GAMES
- FOR FUN AND RECREATION
- BALL IN PLAY
- GAME OVER
- 1 1 9 7
How it plays
-
Goals 1
- 1-10
Made by
- Design
- Norm Clark
- Art
- Art Stenholm
Reference
Linked terms
- ABC saucers also called A saucers also called B saucer also called C saucer
- Bonus saucer also called Center saucer
- Center blue bumper also called Center pop bumper
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- powder blue
- yellow
- red
- orange
Fingerprint: Upright blonde woman in red dress and bearded man in purple suit squaring off either side of painter's easel, fan of alternating yellow-orange triangular panels spreading from central starburst bumper, horseshoe magnet 200 disc scatter of round numbered targets 1 through 10 in rainbow sequence at top arc, four round 10 POINTS discs riding on figures and A 50 gates, two red-white sunburst bumpers with 10 WHEN LIT, electro-mechanical powder-blue-yellow flat airbrushed cartoon style
The centrepiece is a fan of alternating yellow and orange triangular panels spreading from a central starburst bumper, with an upright blonde woman in a red dress and a bearded man in a purple suit squaring off on either side of a painter's easel, as if posing for a portrait. Second-most memorable: the top arc where a horseshoe magnet, a '200' disc and a scatter of round numbered targets 1 through 10 sit in a rainbow sequence. Third: the four round '10 POINTS' discs riding on the figures and on the 'A 50' gates at the flippers. Fourth: two red-and-white sunburst bumpers carrying '10 WHEN LIT' either side of the fan, and two round 'BUMPER ARE LIT' gate targets with a red ball parked beneath each.
Setting
- Flat untextured powder-blue field over the lower two-thirds, with a small grey city-skyline silhouette and a cloud at mid-left
- Flat bright yellow upper third with a straight horizontal boundary, an orange band at the very top and a red-orange arc
- White instruction and rules cards on the lower apron
Symbols
- Horseshoe magnet
- Painter's easel with torn white canvas
- Circle of numbered target discs 1-10
- Starburst sunray rosettes
- Red arrows
- Striped posts and lane guides
- Qr code sticker on the rules card
- A rectangular grid of window blinds icon on the right apron
Notable shapes
- Large radiating fan of alternating yellow and orange triangles filling the upper-middle playfield
- A deep v-shaped light-blue lane opening at bottom centre between the two flippers
- A full-width yellow arch at the top with a concentric rainbow of coloured circles and discs
- Torn white canvas on a three-legged easel dead centre
- Red arrow banner running along the lower left and right edges
Art motifs
- Flat cartoon airbrushed colour blocks
- Red and cream diagonal candy stripes
- Point values in heavy red numerals
- Symmetric left-right mirroring about the vertical centreline
Themes
- Artist's studio
- Painting and easel
- Portrait posing
- Magnet and number targets
- Bonus ladder
Text on it
- Williams
- ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING CORP.
- CHICAGO ILLINOIS
- INSTRUCTIONS
- FLIPPER BUTTONS
- ON SIDE OF
- CABINET
- FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY
- NO PRIZES NO WAGERING
- SPECIAL
- WHEN LIT
- WHEN BUMPER ARE LIT
- ON BUMPER
- 8 POINTS WHEN LIT
- 10 WHEN LIT
- 10 POINTS
- SPECIAL WHEN A OR B IS COMPLETED
- LIGHTS 200 - 100 - 20 WHEN NUMBERS ARE LIT
- Matching 'red' number in black glass window.
- The spinner letter lights and alternately stop center of each number it stops it lights.
- 100
- 200
- 1000 BONUS
- A 50
- WARNING
- PATENT REGISTRATION 1093115
- SERIAL NO.
- 5 BALLS PER PLAYER
- 1 Play 10c OPPOS 2 BALLS OR 1c 1 PLAY
- 3 PLAYS 25c DEPOSIT QUARTER
- 1 REPLAY FOR EACH SCORE OF 32,000
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Adult blonde woman, shoulder-length wavy hair, side-on facing right, wearing a tight short-sleeved red dress and red high-heeled shoes, hands on hips, smiling, black oval '10 points' disc over her hip |
| Man | Adult man with a dark beard, wearing a flat purple cap, purple jacket, white shirt and dark trousers, side-on facing left, right hand extended palm-up, black oval '10 points' disc at his waist |
| Other | Small standing human silhouettes painted in grey on the mid-left skyline |
An electro-mechanical playfield shot from above in a bare, unlacquered cabinet. The lower two-thirds is flat powder blue; the upper third is bright yellow, split by a straight horizontal seam. Two figures face each other across the middle: at left a blonde woman in a tight red dress and red heels, hands on hips, smiling, with a black '10 POINTS' disc on her hip; at right a bearded man in a purple cap and purple jacket, white shirt, one hand open in a gesture, with a matching disc. Between them stands a wooden easel holding a torn-edged white canvas. Above, a fan of yellow and orange triangles radiates from a blue-and-white starburst bumper marked '8 POINTS WHEN LIT', flanked by two round bumpers ringed with red-and-white sunburst rays reading '10 WHEN LIT'. The top arc holds a horseshoe magnet, a '200' disc, round targets numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, two '100' drop targets and a '1000 BONUS' dial. Striped posts and two clear round plastics flank the sides. White cards fill the bottom: INSTRUCTIONS, FLIPPER BUTTONS, rules and player cards.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- yellow
- red
- blue
- pink
Fingerprint: MOULIN ROUGE in orange-red fat rounded block letters, huge grey-blue cylindrical roller painted by crouching man in red beret, blonde woman in short red dress seated sideways on yellow folding stool, Montmartre street scene with house and domed turret, reflective ghosted image in lower half
The single most memorable element is a huge painted grey-blue cylindrical roller or barrel lying diagonally across the middle of the backglass, which the crouching man in a red beret appears to be painting with a brush while a blonde woman in a red dress sits on a folding stool beside it. Four separate square score windows at the top right show the digits 1 1 9 7. A glaringly bright, streaky reflective band covers the entire lower half of the glass, ghosting a second image of a windmill mill and the words MOULIN ROUGE inside the reflection. A small yellow card reading GAME OVER lies discarded in the bottom right corner with a cigarette end and crumpled paper on the ground.
Setting
- Yellow sky
- French montmartre street with shuttered townhouses
- Windmill with lattice sails
- Cream house with steep shingled roof and geranium window boxes
- Green-domed turret with gold trim
- Canvas awning
Symbols
- Four-bladed windmill with red hub and white lattice sails
- Red geranium flower boxes under the score windows
- Green domed turret with gold spires
- Grey-blue cylindrical roller/barrel
- Yellow folding stool
- Paint brush
- Yellow game over card
- Cigarette end and crumpled paper on the ground
- Stacked 1 2 3 4 5 player numbers on the roller face
- Street lamp
Lettering
- Enormous slanted rounded sans-serif block capitals in orange-red with dark red inline shadow and thin black outline, stacked on two lines; small red cursive script brand word above; small dark condensed capitals on the instruction cartouche and on the ball in play oval
Themes
- Paris
- Montmartre cabaret district
- Windmill
- Café street
- Artists and painters
- Score card artwork conceit
Title on it
- Moulin rouge
Text on it
- Williams
- MOULIN ROUGE
- PLAY
- FLIPPER SKILL GAMES
- FOR FUN AND RECREATION
- BALL IN PLAY
- GAME OVER
- 1 1 9 7
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Young adult blonde woman, shoulder-length hair, short red dress, gold pendant, red high-heeled shoes, seated sideways on a yellow folding stool at left with legs crossed, one hand resting on a grey-blue cylindrical roller, looking towards the viewer |
| Man | Man in a dark blue beret and maroon shirt with a broad toothy grin, peering over the seated woman's shoulder at upper left of centre |
| Man | Man in a red shirt, blue trousers and a red beret at right, crouching on one knee, one arm raised to touch the roller, the other hand holding a paint brush, looking left |
| Man | Man in a brown jacket and blue cap in the right background, in profile facing left |
| Woman | Small female figure with dark hair looking out of a green-shuttered window behind the roller at centre right |
A painted backglass in flat cartoon-comic style, dominated by a hot yellow sky behind a French Montmartre street scene. The huge central title MOULIN ROUGE is in fat, rounded, slanted block capitals, orange-red with a darker red inline shadow and a thin black outline, stacked on two lines. Above it sits the small script word 'Williams' preceded by a red circular badge containing a white letter W. Four cream-coloured score windows in white frames run across the upper right, reading 1 1 9 7 from left to right, each sitting above a small window box with red geranium flower boxes; behind them a cream house with a steep brown shingled roof, green shutters and a green-domed turret with gold trim. At the left, a blonde woman in a short red dress and red high-heeled shoes sits sideways on a yellow folding stool, legs crossed, leaning on a grey-blue cylindrical roller; she wears a gold pendant. A man in a dark blue beret and maroon shirt grins behind her shoulder, and at the right a man in a red shirt, blue trousers and a red beret crouches with one hand raised to the roller, holding a paint brush. A fifth man in a brown jacket and blue cap stands further back at the right edge, and a woman looks out of a shuttered window behind the roller. A pale blue-and-white oval cartouche on the left reads PLAY / FLIPPER SKILL GAMES / FOR FUN AND RECREATION. The lower half is a reflective, glassy, smeared area showing a ghosted reflection of the machine's own Moulin Rouge building artwork.