1953 · Gottlieb
Shindig
Indoor dance hall ballroom, large diagonally-planked wooden dance floor, white balustrade staircase rising to upper right, seated spectator tables at upper left and purple and blue flat colour fields framing the floor.
- Year
- 1953
- 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
- orange
- blue
- cream
- yellow
Fingerprint: shindig, floor packed with dozen simultaneous dancing couples in wildly clashing bright outfits giving chaotic party feel, oversized couple at lower right—man in blue jacket swinging woman in lemon-yellow gown with blue sash—mid-twist dominating foreground, white-bordered numbered boxes with yellow arrow and MILLION on purple left edge, cream block capitals title with red inline shading
The floor is packed with a dozen simultaneous dancing couples in wildly clashing bright outfits, giving the whole panel a chaotic party feel rather than a single focal scene. Dominating the lower right is an oversized couple: a man in a blue jacket swinging a woman in a lemon-yellow gown with a blue sash, both mid-twist. The scoring grid is unusually graphic - white-bordered boxes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 running beside a yellow left arrow and MILLION on purple, with a staircase of red, blue, green and yellow value panels stepping down the left edge. The title SHINDIG is in heavy cream block capitals with red inline shading and a red drop shadow, preceded by a white Gothic script signature word.
Setting
- Indoor dance hall ballroom
- Large diagonally-planked wooden dance floor
- White balustrade staircase rising to upper right
- Seated spectator tables at upper left
- Purple and blue flat colour fields framing the floor
Symbols
- Row of numbered bonus panels 1-7
- Yellow left-pointing arrow
- Red arrow labelled points
- Stack of yellow and red dice
- Playing cards
- Black-and-white checkerboard card back
- White staircase balustrade
Lettering
- Main title shindig in heavy cream sans-serif block capitals with red inline striping and a red drop shadow, slightly arched; a smaller white gothic/blackletter script signature word sits to its left; score panels use plain white block numerals on solid colour rectangles; a purple banner carries million in white capitals; a small white plate at lower centre carries red script manufacturer text.
Themes
- Dance hall
- Ballroom
- Party
- Twist dance
- 1950s dance craze
- Staircase
- Casino scoring grid
Title on it
- Shindig
Text on it
- Gottlieb's
- SHINDIG
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- MILLION
- 700,000
- 800,000
- 900,000
- 500,000
- 600,000
- 300,000
- 400,000
- 200,000
- 100,000
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- POINTS
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Foreground lower right, dark slicked hair, blue jacket open over bare chest, tan trousers, one arm raised holding his partner, smiling |
| Woman | Foreground lower right, long dark hair, strapless lemon-yellow full-length gown with blue sash over shoulder, arms out, being swung |
| Man | Top right, yellow shirt with black circular emblem, black trousers, one leg kicked up, both arms raised |
| Woman | Top right, short dark hair, yellow dress, arms flung up beside him |
| Woman | Upper right, purple/magenta dress, dark hair, one leg lifted while dancing |
| Man | Upper right, purple shirt, dark trousers, arms out |
| Woman | Upper middle-right, purple and white plaid/check dress, dark bobbed hair, skipping |
| Man | Upper middle-right, matching plaid/check trousers, cap, mid-stride |
| Woman | Centre, green sleeveless dress, arms extended, stepping forward |
| Man | Centre, green suit with green trousers, dark hair, both arms raised |
| Woman | Centre-left, orange dress, blonde hair, leaning back with arms out |
| Man | Centre, orange shirt and orange trousers, dark hair, mid-dance step |
| Woman | Lower left-centre, blue and white striped top with blue flared skirt, one arm raised |
| Man | Lower centre, blue and white check shirt with blue trousers, dark hair, striding |
| Woman | Lower left, bright red dress, blonde hair, both arms up |
| Man | Lower left, red plaid shirt with green trousers, dark cap, stepping right |
| Other | Several small seated spectator figures in colourful clothes at tables behind the balustrade in the upper left |
A square backglass panel in a pale wooden frame, filled with a bright mid-century cartoon of a crowded dance hall. A wide orange-and-cream diagonally-planked dance floor sweeps from lower left to upper right, crossed by a staircase with a white balustrade rising along the top edge; small seated spectators at tables line the upper left. Roughly a dozen dancing couples in saturated red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple clothing cover the floor, all mid-step with arms flung out. At lower right a large foreground couple dominates: a dark-haired man in a blue jacket and tan trousers and a woman in a flowing lemon-yellow gown with a blue sash over one shoulder. The upper left quadrant is a blue field of numbered scoring boxes - a row of white-bordered panels reading 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 followed by a yellow left-pointing arrow and the word MILLION on a purple banner, with descending coloured score panels below. Colours are dominated by orange, blue, cream and yellow. Art style is flat comic/cartoon with heavy black outlines and halftone shading. A red arrow at bottom right reads POINTS.