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Quoted from tcv:Larry: "A marble machine in a jail."
Moe: "That's where they belong."
Hmmmmm... Commentary on gambling? Pun on "marbleheads?"
Very likely alluding to gambling.
Here is another Stooges' short with pinball from 1946, so also pre-flipper. Check around 2:20 and 6:40.
"Look! A game of skill! Shall we play?"
Quoted from tcv:I was looking through stuff on IPDB and couldn't find Bally produced games in 1942 or 1943. Did Bally not release any games during the war?
Correct. Pinball companies produced materials for the war effort. Many of the games then were re-themes of existing games.
http://pinballbayarea.com/2013/01/25/tomorrow-gun-sights/
The art style and cab of the game in the OP's post looks mid-to-late 30's.
Quoted from Sprout:My observations...
The game in the short has *three* bolts per leg; the vast majority of Bally stuff from that time seems to have *two* bolts per leg.
"Challenger" payout/one-ball play machine from 1936 was the only exception I found.. http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=484&picno=3988
I dug through images of other pins from other manufacturers at the time, but don't see any other using three leg bolts.
Otherwise, clearly flipperless, and I think it's a single-ball game given how it's played in the short - think it's a payout machine?
One possibility is they made the game taller to accentuate the stooges' shortness.
I agree it looks like a bally. Here's another bally game with a similar sticker in the same location.
Note also a similar metal bracket at the top of the playfield, and that the lane guide on the left also seems to terminate in the same location.
http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1071&picno=46034
It has a similar design and parts as Vogue.
http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2741&picno=25788
I would guess it's a bally from 1939 or 1940.
Quoted from Darcy:This looks like movie magic. The top photo shows a machine with wide wood rails, the rail does not touch the back box, it looks like there is a gap between the parts. The second picture shows a machine with smaller wood rails, that meet up with the back box.
The photo in KenLayton post, I think that is Groucho Marx. Maybe?
I'm pretty sure it's all one game. The scoring targets on the backbox (clovers, ribbons, etc) correspond with the playfield. Three is also a "multiple" target on the backbox which corrensponds to four difficult to hit gobble or trap holes.
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