1956 · Gottlieb
Rainbow
Desert canyon with layered purple and tan rock mesas, tall green saguaro-style cactus with a metal box fitted to its trunk, pale blue sky with white cloud streaks and small flying birds, small campfire and scattered small props on the sand, green bottle lying on the ground near the campfire and pink and purple rock spires at the left edge.
- Year
- 1956
- Maker
- Gottlieb
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- pink
- lavender
- teal
- orange
Fingerprint: MILLION in purple capitals ringed by eight coloured flat balls, rainbow arch dominating upper half over pale sky, three bikini-clad women standing desert ground legs in red green and pale, red-white pennant banner, elderly white-bearded cowboy on rearing spotted horse holding lasso, desert mesas and cactus, vertical ladder nine numerals right side
The single most memorable feature is the broad multi-coloured rainbow arch that dominates the upper half of the glass, framing the desert scene beneath it. Close behind that is the arrangement of three swimsuit-clad women in red, green and pale bikinis standing side by side directly under the purple word MILLION, ringed by eight flat coloured balls. Another strong memory is the bearded cowboy on the rearing spotted horse at the lower left, complete with purple hat, check waistcoat and coiled lasso. A vertical ladder of nine white score values in coloured rectangles down the right side is also distinctive.
Setting
- Desert canyon with layered purple and tan rock mesas
- Tall green saguaro-style cactus with a metal box fitted to its trunk
- Pale blue sky with white cloud streaks and small flying birds
- Small campfire and scattered small props on the sand
- Green bottle lying on the ground near the campfire
- Pink and purple rock spires at the left edge
Symbols
- Eight large flat coloured balls ringing the million lettering
- Rainbow arch
- Cactus with metal box
- Campfire
- Lasso
- Green bottle
- Small flying birds
- Vertical stack of nine coloured score rectangles
Lettering
- Tall narrow hand-painted purple capitals for million; white block numerals with dark outline on coloured rectangular plaques for the score ladder; black script on a red-and-white pennant for the maker banner; faint small white serif text in parentheses at the bottom right corner
Themes
- Desert
- Southwest
- Cactus
- Rainbow
- Cowboy
- Pin-up
- Swimsuit
- Score ladder
Title on it
- Million
Text on it
- MILLION
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- 900 000
- 800 000
- 700 000
- 600 000
- 500 000
- 400 000
- 300 000
- 200 000
- 100 000
- American Product
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Left of the trio; red-haired, wearing a red two-piece swimsuit with a red fringed skirt, hands on hips, smiling, white shoes |
| Woman | Centre of the trio; brunette with a green feathered headpiece, green two-piece swimsuit with a short green skirt, hands on hips, green shoes |
| Woman | Right of the trio; blonde, pale two-piece swimsuit with dark shorts, one arm raised to her hat, white knee-high boots |
| Man | Elderly cowboy with long white beard and moustache, purple wide-brim hat, blue shirt, red-and-white check waistcoat, riding a rearing white horse with purple patches and holding a coiled lasso |
| Animal | White horse with purple dappled patches, front legs raised, bridle visible |
A framed, brightly painted backglass with a wide rainbow arch sweeping from the left edge across the top to the right side, over a pale blue and lavender sky streaked with white cloud. Below and left of centre the word MILLION is painted in tall purple capitals, surrounded by a ring of eight large flat coloured balls in red, yellow, orange, purple and teal. Beneath it three women in 1950s-style two-piece swimsuits stand in a row on sandy desert ground, hands on hips, smiling: a red-haired woman in a red bikini, a brunette in a green bikini with a small feather headpiece, and a blonde in a pale bikini with white boots. A small red-and-white pennant banner reading D. Gottlieb & Co. flies beside them. Lower left an elderly white-bearded cowboy in a purple hat, blue shirt and red-and-white check waistcoat rides a rearing white and purple spotted horse, holding a lasso. The centre of the glass is a desert scene with a tall green cactus bearing a metal box, layered purple and tan rock mesas, a small campfire, and a green bottle. Down the right side a vertical ladder of white numerals in coloured boxes reads 900 000 down to 100 000. The palette is dominated by pink, lavender, teal-blue and orange.