Casablanca

Casablanca was manufactured by Bell Products Company of Chicago in March 1945 — during World War II, which did not end until later that year, rather than afterward. It was a conversion of Bally's 1940 'Glamour', part of the wave of wartime conversion games that let manufacturers keep pinball production going despite material shortages.

As a flipperless, single-player electro-mechanical machine, Casablanca was played with five balls per game — meaning players took five sequential turns per game rather than juggling multiple balls at once. Scoring relied on bumpers and rollovers rather than flipper skill, consistent with pinball design before flippers were introduced.

Little specific information survives about Casablanca's artwork or theme. Its production amid the tail end of wartime shortages, and its status as a Bally 'Glamour' conversion, make it a notable piece of mid-1940s pinball history for collectors.