Made by
- Art
- Michele "Mike" Martinelli
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- green
- red
- blue
- white
Fingerprint: "TIC & TOC" title with coloured ball letters, pool players stretched horizontally over billiard table, bearded man in cap and checkered waistcoat, bald man at edge.
A cartoon pool hall where the players are stretched out in exaggerated, near-horizontal poses across the green baize of a billiard table, which is drawn in plan view and studded with brightly coloured balls. One word of the title is spelled out across five coloured ball-shaped discs on a jagged blue banner. A wide-eyed bearded man in a flat cap and checkered waistcoat stands at the left holding a cue, while a bald man in a maroon jacket is cropped at the lower right edge. A five-reel mechanical score window sits in the upper right inside a black frame.
Setting
- Indoors, pub or billiard hall interior
- Window with green curtains on the back wall
- Lit wall lamp
- Wooden panelled floor and rails
Symbols
- Pool table
- Billiard balls in solid colours and stripes
- Pool cues
- Cigar
- Pendant lamp
- Hanging ball ornaments above the score panel
- Plan-view billiard table triangle
- Incandescent bulb lamps
Lettering
- Large slanted hand-lettered red script with white and yellow outline for the title; block capital letters printed individually on coloured spheres for the second word; small red block capitals on a green plaque and on a red-striped tag
Themes
- Billiards
- Pool hall
- Sport
- Comedy
- Pub interior
Title on it
- Tic & toc
Text on it
- TIC & TOC
- 31310
- PUNTO
- HAND OVER
- 1000 MILA
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Left side, standing, torso visible: brown beard and moustache, round spectacles, green flat cap, white shirt, red-and-white checkered waistcoat, holding a wooden cue stick diagonally and a cigar in the other hand, grinning |
| Man | Centre, dark-haired, in a blue shirt, bent almost flat over the billiard table with cue extended, aiming |
| Man | Centre-right, in a yellow-green shirt, also stretched low over the baize with a cue, aiming |
| Man | Further right, in a red shirt, leaning over the table with cue raised |
| Man | Right side, in a pale shirt, seen in profile, leaning back |
| Man | Lower right corner, bald with a moustache, maroon jacket over a blue shirt, pointing one finger upward, cropped by the panel edge |
A square backglass panel with a white outer border, dominated by a cartoon billiards-hall scene painted in flat, saturated comic-book colours. Upper left: a two-word title in large slanted red letters with white and yellow outline, curving upwards. Upper right: a cream rectangular score panel with five mechanical number reels reading 3 1 3 1 0, set inside a black frame with two bulb lamps and small hanging ball ornaments above it; below that a jagged blue banner carries five coloured spheres, each printed with one letter to spell a second word. The centre-left shows a bearded, bespectacled man in a green flat cap, white shirt and red-and-white checkered waistcoat, holding a pool cue and a cigar, in a bar-like interior with a window, green curtains and a lit wall lamp. To his right, several cartoon players in coloured shirts lean far over the green baize of a pool table with cue sticks extended. The lower half is dominated by the triangular green pool table scattered with roughly fourteen coloured balls in red, blue, yellow, green, black and striped combinations. A bald man in a maroon jacket appears at lower right, cropped by the frame edge.