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1950 · Gottlieb

Rockettes

Outer space with a large magenta rocket nose cone, lime-green starfield with small yellow and white stars and white speed lines and starburst rays behind the title.

Year
1950
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.

Rockettes backglass

Backglass

  • magenta
  • lime green
  • red
  • yellow

Fingerprint: ROCKETS in tall white capitals with red-yellow sunburst, three women in red polka-dot two-pieces on trapezes over lime-green star-speckled field, colossal magenta rocket nose cone with white speed streaks, grinning clown head with 100 POINTS scroll

Distinctive

A colossal magenta rocket nose cone with white speed streaks filling the entire right third of the glass. Three red-haired and blonde women in matching red polka-dot two-pieces swinging on ropes and a trapeze over a star-speckled lime-green field. The title ROCKETS in tall white block capitals backed by a red-and-yellow sunburst. A ring of green ribbon flags each carrying a progressively larger round score value from 100 000 up to 900 000. A grinning clown head in the left margin holding a 100 POINTS scroll.

Setting

  • Outer space with a large magenta rocket nose cone
  • Lime-green starfield with small yellow and white stars
  • White speed lines and starburst rays behind the title

Symbols

  • Stars
  • Rocket nose cone
  • Red-and-yellow sunburst rays
  • Candy-striped pole
  • Rope and trapeze
  • Clown ruff

Lettering

  • Tall condensed white sans-serif block capitals with heavy black outline and red/yellow sunburst drop shading; arched top banner of separate green flags with white-outlined lettering

Themes

  • Space
  • Rockets
  • Circus trapeze
  • Swings
  • Score ladder

Title on it

  • Rockets

Text on it

  • 5-4-3-2-1 MILLION
  • A PRODUCT OF
  • CHICAGO, ILL.
  • ROCKETS
  • 900 000
  • 800 000
  • 700 000
  • 600 000
  • 500 000
  • 400 000
  • 300 000
  • 200 000
  • 100 000
  • 100 POINTS
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Red-haired woman in a red-and-white polka-dot bikini top and matching shorts, mouth open laughing, swinging on a rope at centre-left
Woman Blonde woman in red-and-white polka-dot two-piece, one arm raised, legs extended, swinging on a trapeze at centre-right
Woman Dark red-haired woman seen from the shoulders up at the bottom centre, head tilted back laughing, arm raised
Other Small background figure of a woman in a red costume swinging on a trapeze in the green field
Other Grinning clown head with ruffled collar at the left edge holding a white 100 points scroll
Vehicle Large magenta rocket nose cone filling the right side, with white speed streaks
Full description

A tall rectangular backglass dominated by a huge magenta rocket nose cone curving up the right side, streaked with white speed lines, and a cluster of three women in red-and-white polka-dot two-piece swimsuits swinging on trapezes and ropes against a lime-green field scattered with small yellow and white stars. Across the top, an arched white-outlined banner of green flags reads 5-4-3-2-1 MILLION in black-outlined white capitals. Below it sits the main title in tall condensed white block letters with heavy red-and-yellow sunburst ray shading: ROCKETS, with an oval white medallion above the middle reading A PRODUCT OF in small black type, a red cursive script name, and CHICAGO, ILL. in tiny black capitals beneath. Nine green ribbon flags edged in white carry score values 100 000 through 900 000, each in white numerals on red oval panels. A grinning clown head with a ruffled collar peeks in from the left edge holding a white scroll reading 100 POINTS. A red-and-yellow striped pole runs up the left border. Art style is flat, brightly saturated comic-book cartoon line work.