1949 · Gottlieb
Basketball
Indoor basketball gymnasium with yellow brick walls, yellow-green wooden court floor with red painted key circles, stadium grandstand of tiny spectators beneath the title, string of triangular bunting flags and large blue grid-paned window at upper right.
- Year
- 1949
- 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
- blue
- red
- white
Fingerprint: GOTTLIEB'S Basketball in huge slanted white script with red and dark-blue drop shadows, yellow Million script at top, descending ladder of colored ribbon banners down left edge carrying scores 900,000 down to 100,000, cartoon basketball players numbered 3-12 in red and blue-green sleeveless jerseys leaping toward hoop, striped referee running center bottom, six large spectators lower-left corner
A huge slanted white script word 'Basketball' with red and navy drop shadows, tilted upwards to the right beneath a red-on-white maker panel and the yellow script word 'Million'. A descending ladder of coloured ribbon banners down the left edge, each stamped with a score from 900,000 down to 100,000. Cartoon players in red and blue/green kits frozen mid-jump around a single white backboard and net, with purple shadow shapes under their feet on a flat yellow court. A dense band of hundreds of tiny multi-coloured spectators in a grandstand directly beneath the title, with bunting flags strung across the top of the gym wall.
Setting
- Indoor basketball gymnasium with yellow brick walls
- Yellow-green wooden court floor with red painted key circles
- Stadium grandstand of tiny spectators beneath the title
- String of triangular bunting flags
- Large blue grid-paned window at upper right
Symbols
- Five coloured number circles 1-5
- Descending score ribbons down the left border
- White backboard with net and basketball
- Red painted centre circles on the court
- Triangular bunting flags
- Crowd of tiny spectators
Lettering
- Large slanted white brush script with red and navy offset drop shadows for the main title; a smaller red-and-white blocky sans-serif 'gottlieb's' inside a rounded white panel; the word 'million' in flowing yellow script with red shadow; score values in white slab numerals on coloured ribbon banners.
Themes
- Basketball
- Sports
- Gymnasium
- Competition
- Crowd
Title on it
- Gottlieb's basketball
Text on it
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Million
- GOTTLIEB'S
- Basketball
- 900,000
- 800,000
- 700,000
- 600,000
- 500,000
- 400,000
- 300,000
- 200,000
- 100,000
- D. GOTTLIEB & CO. MFRS. CHICAGO
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Player in red jersey number 3, white shorts, leaping at the centre with one arm stretched up toward the backboard |
| Man | Player in red jersey number 4, white shorts, running left with arms out |
| Man | Player in red jersey number 5, white shorts, back turned, arms raised |
| Man | Player in red jersey number 7, white shorts, mid-stride near centre right |
| Man | Player in red jersey number 9, white shorts, seen from behind at lower right |
| Man | Player in dark blue and green jersey number 12, leaping with both arms up |
| Man | Player in blue and green jersey number 10, white shorts, seen from behind at lower left centre |
| Man | Player in blue and green jersey number 6, white shorts, crouching with legs splayed |
| Man | Player in blue and green jersey number 8, white shorts, striding at the right edge |
| Man | Referee in black-and-white vertical striped shirt and pale trousers, running with a whistle |
| Man | Figure in a red top standing on steps by the right-hand door, one arm raised |
| Other | Group of six large spectators in the bottom-left corner - a red-haired man in a teal jacket, a blonde woman in a red patterned dress, a bald man in a dark teal sweater with fist raised, and three more heads behind them |
| Other | A dense crowd of hundreds of tiny simplified figures filling the grandstand behind the title |
A printed basketball-themed backglass in flat mid-century cartoon style, framed by an orange-brown wooden cabinet edge with a dark inner border. Across the top, five coloured circles spell out 1-2-3-4-5 (blue, yellow, peach, yellow, red) beside the word 'Million' in flowing yellow script with a red drop shadow. The main title 'GOTTLIEB'S Basketball' runs diagonally across the upper third: a small red-and-white 'GOTTLIEB'S' inside a white rounded panel above a huge slanted white script 'Basketball' with red and dark-blue offset shadows. A stack of coloured ribbon banners runs down the left edge carrying score values from 900,000 down to 100,000. Behind the title is a stadium grandstand packed with hundreds of tiny spectators, strings of triangular bunting, a white backboard with net and ball at centre, two windows and a dark blue door on the yellow gym wall, and a large blue grid window at upper right. The lower two-thirds is a yellow-green basketball court with red key circles, where cartoon players in red and blue/green sleeveless jerseys numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 leap and reach toward the hoop, with a black-and-white striped referee running at centre bottom. Six large spectators crowd the bottom-left corner. Small print along the right curve reads 'D. GOTTLIEB & CO. MFRS. CHICAGO'.