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Which EM ? - The Story of The Who (TV advertisement & Album Cover)

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This would have proceeded Tommy The Movie by 18 months. Roger is seen playing Kings & Queens and Elton's piano modded pin is Buckaroo in the film.
They were my first thoughts as to being repurposed, but the pop-bumper arrangements in neither match.
 
The voice over sounds like the late John Peel.

The machine seems to be a Williams game, from the fittings. Probably not the newest (or even recent) at the time, given it would be destroyed; the games in the 'holiday camp' section of Tommy would have been cheapies at the time.
 
Doozie, Williams 1968
or Daffie,
Some shots show 5 pop bumpers, but some show a target bank in the middle of the playfield

EDIT, the pop bumpers are wrong
 
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I killed some time looking through Williams games from preceding years on ipdb. That 5-bumper arrangement seems to have been a Williams favourite at the time. I hadn't known that the 50's 'horse race' gadget re-surfaced, though.

Looking further, the bumper arrangement was more a favourite of designer Norm Clark, hence 'Clark's Cluster'

Those nails near the flippers in your picture above have been added, btw. That drainable gap is intentional, to prevent a player cradling the ball while the captive ball is running - unlike later uses, it runs until the ball rolls over the buttons marked 'Stop Doodle Bug' (or drains, of course). I shouldn't think it's permitted to have the post raised and the Doodle Bug running, either.
 
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Looking closer at the exploding picture, the front molding has broken into two pieces. In the before picture it seems to have a join. Maybe this was done for effect. The only actual games I recall with anything similar were Stern's wide-body games, such as Big Game and Cheetah.

And the side rail, which looks as if it's on the wrong side of the cabinet anyway, has flown off.
 
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