YEAR: 1973
DIRECTOR: James William Guercio
PINBALL MODEL:
Sing Along (1967, Gottlieb)
GAME LOCATION(S): Tavern
NOTES: What we have here is a fairly run-of-the-mill sighting of a pin-table in a small town Arizona saloon. But maybe the presence of this pin is not so banal when one considers the importance of spatial dynamics to the film as a whole. The immensity of the deflated, barren filmic space in which Electra Glide in Blue takes place is extraordinarily well rendered, but so too does this lead to an interesting effect when the film moves into more domestic, enclosed areas. These scenes feel claustrophobic and cluttered in contrast to the larger stage of expansive horizons and roads to nowhere that define the American southwest. The inclusion of a pin-table resonates a familiar semblance of Americana iconography, but also graphically fills the frame space, increasing its visual pressure.
