1950 · United
Red Shoes
Flat solid mid-green backdrop filling the upper two-thirds, orange stage-floor band with a dark navy-blue lower edge across the middle, white elliptical spotlight pool on the floor under the dancers, purple bottom band carrying numerals and light varnished wooden frame surrounding the whole glass.
- Year
- 1950
- Maker
- United
- 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
- green
- red
- white
- yellow
Fingerprint: Red Shoes in large red script with heavy white drop shadow on plain flat green background, large foreground ballerina with arms arched overhead en pointe in red slippers, tiny second dancer leaping behind, white tutus, elaborate left-side score ladder of colored lozenges reading 1-9 Million with bonus values, purple base band with numerals one-ten
The single most memorable element is the huge two-line red script logo Red Shoes with a white drop shadow, set against a plain flat green background rather than any scenic backdrop. Two ballerinas in white tutus with red ballet slippers dominate the centre, the front one enormous with both arms arched overhead in a perfect oval and en pointe on one toe, a second tiny dancer leaping behind her at the right. A tall left-hand score ladder of brightly coloured lozenges running 1 Million to 9 Million against alternating 100 000 and 10 000 bonus values is unusually elaborate for the era. The bottom edge has a purple strip with an oversized row of yellow numerals 1 to 10, like a player-number guide.
Setting
- Flat solid mid-green backdrop filling the upper two-thirds
- Orange stage-floor band with a dark navy-blue lower edge across the middle
- White elliptical spotlight pool on the floor under the dancers
- Purple bottom band carrying numerals
- Light varnished wooden frame surrounding the whole glass
Symbols
- Stack of coloured score lozenges in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
- Scalloped purple bottom border
- White spotlight ellipse on the stage floor
- Wooden frame with mitered corners
- Small dark rectangular mark at the right end of the orange band
Lettering
- United's in small white sans-serif block capitals; red shoes in very large slanted red brush script with a white drop shadow and thin black outline
Themes
- Ballet
- Dance
- Music hall
- Stage
- Score ladder
Title on it
- United's red shoes
Text on it
- UNITED'S
- Red
- Shoes
- Million
- 1 Million
- 2 Million
- 3 Million
- 4 Million
- 5 Million
- 6 Million
- 7 Million
- 8 Million
- 9 Million
- 100 000
- 200 000
- 300 000
- 400 000
- 500 000
- 600 000
- 700 000
- 800 000
- 900 000
- 10 000
- 20 000
- 30 000
- 40 000
- 50 000
- 60 000
- 70 000
- 80 000
- 90 000
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Large foreground ballerina at centre-left, adult, pale skin, short dark hair with a white feathered or jewelled headband, smiling in profile facing left, both arms raised in a high rounded arch above her head, wearing a short white tutu with blue shading and white bodice, legs crossed in a classical pose with one foot en pointe, red ballet slippers with ribbons |
| Woman | Much smaller second ballerina behind and to the right, adult, pale skin, dark hair, arms extended horizontally in mid-leap with one leg kicked straight back and the other pointed down, white tutu with blue shading, red ballet slippers |
A portrait-format 1950s-style pinball backglass set in a varnished light-brown wooden frame. The right two-thirds is a flat mid-green backdrop carrying the title: the small word UNITED'S in white block capitals above a large two-line red script logo reading Red Shoes, lettered with a heavy white drop shadow and black outline. Two ballerinas in white tutus occupy the green field: a large foreground dancer at centre-left, dark-haired with a white hairpiece or feathered headband, arms raised in a high fifth-position curve above her head, one leg extended en pointe in red ballet slippers, and a much smaller second dancer behind her at right, mid-leap with arms outstretched and one leg kicked back, also in red slippers. Below them a horizontal orange band with a dark navy-blue lower edge suggests the stage floor and back wall. The left third is a score chart of stacked coloured lozenges reading 1 Million through 9 Million alongside 100 000, 200 000, 10 000, 20 000, 300 000, 30 000, 400 000, 40 000, 500 000, 50 000, 600 000, 60 000, 700 000, 70 000, 800 000, 80 000, 900 000, 90 000. Along the bottom a purple band carries large yellow-outlined numerals 1 through 10. No DMD or reels; the chart is printed artwork.