1952 · Gottlieb
All-Star Basketball
Indoor basketball gymnasium seen from a high tilted angle, upper-left spectator stands with a crowd and pennant banners, teal painted wall behind the top banner dotted with yellow five-pointed stars and wooden play floor with orange painted key areas.
- Year
- 1952
- Maker
- Gottlieb
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- yellow
- magenta
- teal
- orange
Fingerprint: all-star basketball, steeply raked isometric view hardwood court orange key white lines two netted hoops, roughly dozen small players red yellow green blue singlets, top wide yellow banner red script All-Star white drop shadow BASKETBALL white capitals purple panel, woman sleeveless top holding orange basketball white star, tall man blue suit dwarfing crowd
The single most memorable element is the enormous empty magenta scoreboard slab that runs diagonally across the upper half of the glass, flanked on the left by stacked VISITORS and HOME TEAM plates and topped by the red script All-Star BASKETBALL logo. Second, the whole scene is drawn as a tilted aerial/isometric view of a basketball court with tiny running players and two netted hoops. Third, a woman at top right cradles an orange basketball decorated with a white star against the teal starred background. Fourth, a red-suited announcer-like man in a bright blue suit and hat looms large in the bottom-right crowd, dwarfing the tiny spectators around him.
Setting
- Indoor basketball gymnasium seen from a high tilted angle
- Upper-left spectator stands with a crowd and pennant banners
- Teal painted wall behind the top banner dotted with yellow five-pointed stars
- Wooden play floor with orange painted key areas
Symbols
- Basketballs
- Two basketball hoops with nets
- Yellow five-pointed stars on teal background
- White star on the orange basketball
- Court centre circle and boundary lines
- Orange painted key areas
- Pennant banners in the stands
Lettering
- Large red cursive script logo with white and dark-blue drop shadow and gold outline, paired with heavy white sans-serif capitals on angled coloured panels; small red script maker's line inside a white oval badge
Themes
- Basketball
- Sports
- All-star game
- Team match
- Gymnasium
- Scoreboard
Title on it
- All-star basketball
Text on it
- A PRODUCT OF
- BASKETBALL & CO.
- MFG. CO.
- WINONA, MINN.
- All-Star
- BASKETBALL
- VISITORS
- HOME TEAM
- SCOREBOARD
- MICHIGAN
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Young woman, dark hair pulled back, sleeveless top, at top right of the banner holding an orange basketball with a white star at her chest |
| Man | Tall man in a bright blue suit, white shirt and blue hat, standing in the bottom-right crowd, drawn much larger than neighbours |
| Other | About a dozen small basketball players in red, yellow, green and blue singlets and shorts scattered across the court, running, dribbling and shooting |
| Other | Crowd of dozens of small colourful spectators in the upper-left stands and along the bottom-right edge, wearing hats and bright shirts |
| Other | An official or referee figure in dark clothes standing near the centre circle |
| Other | Two basketball hoops with orange rims and white nets, one near the upper-right of the court and one at the lower-left |
A framed painted basketball-gym backglass in bright retro cartoon style, dominated by a steeply raked isometric view of a hardwood court with orange key areas, white boundary lines and two basketball hoops with netted rims. Roughly a dozen small players in red, yellow, green and blue singlets and shorts are spread across the floor in running and shooting poses, seen from above. At the top, a wide yellow banner carries a large red script logo with white and blue drop shadow reading All-Star, with BASKETBALL in bold white block capitals on a purple/maroon angled panel beneath. To its right, a woman in a sleeveless top holds an orange basketball with a white star motif at chest height. Beneath the banner runs a huge blank magenta/purple scoreboard panel labelled SCOREBOARD in white capitals on a blue slanted plate; to its left are stacked VISITORS (red on yellow) and HOME TEAM (white on purple) label plates. A crowd of colourful spectators fills the upper-left stands and the bottom-right foreground corner, including a tall man in a blue suit, white shirt and blue hat. The background is teal-blue with yellow stars; the frame is light wood.