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1951 · Williams

Control Tower

Green-to-yellow-to-orange sunset sky, streaked coloured clouds, white cloud bank upper right, grey-green hilly horizon and flat green grass band at the bottom.

Year
1951
Maker
Williams
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Harry Williams
Art
George Molentin

Vision analysis

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Control Tower backglass

Backglass

  • purple
  • yellow
  • green
  • orange

Fingerprint: Giant purple CONTROL TOWER title with white shadow against sunset sky, purple console topped by green wire-frame radar dome and red antenna, ladder of nine colored number 1-9 buttons paired with score panels, central triangular flag signal mast, two men in work clothes

Distinctive

A giant purple, white-shadowed CONTROL TOWER title stacked in two lines against a sunset sky, with a red helicopter flying above it. A purple console topped by a green wire-frame radar dome and a ladder of nine coloured number 1-9 buttons with 100000-900000 score panels. A central strip of six numbered triangular flags (red, yellow, orange, green, teal, purple) like a signal mast. Two men in red and purple work clothes standing in front of a green sunset.

Setting

  • Green-to-yellow-to-orange sunset sky
  • Streaked coloured clouds
  • White cloud bank upper right
  • Grey-green hilly horizon
  • Flat green grass band at the bottom

Symbols

  • Green wire-frame radar dome with red antenna mast
  • Nine numbered oval buttons 1-9
  • Nine purple score panels 100000-900000
  • Six numbered triangular pennant flags
  • Red helicopter
  • Grey control consoles with dials
  • Yellow button box with a purple button
  • White cloud shapes

Lettering

  • Large purple sans-serif capitals in two stacked lines with a white drop shadow; a small slanted red cursive signature above; white numerals inside purple-outlined score panels

Themes

  • Air traffic control
  • Aviation
  • Radar tower
  • Airport ground equipment
  • Sunset
  • Score ladder

Title on it

  • Control tower

Text on it

  • Williams
  • CONTROL
  • TOWER
  • MILLIONS
  • 1
  • 100000
  • 2
  • 200000
  • 3
  • 300000
  • 4
  • 400000
  • 5
  • 500000
  • 6
  • 600000
  • 7
  • 700000
  • 8
  • 800000
  • 9
  • 900000
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Young man, short blond hair, red jacket over a white and red striped shirt, hands on hips, smiling, facing right, bottom centre-left
Man Man in a pale flat cap and purple high-collared coveralls or uniform, facing left toward the blond man, bottom centre
Vehicle Red helicopter silhouette with spinning rotor flying left of the title in the sky
Full description

Painted pinball backglass in a flat, brightly coloured cartoon style. A purple control console with a green wire-frame dome and red antenna occupies the left third; its face carries a vertical ladder of nine oval number buttons coloured orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, red and lime, numbered 1 to 9, each paired with a purple-outlined score panel reading 100000 through 900000. Up the centre runs a slim yellow ladder of triangular flags in red, yellow, orange, green, teal and purple, numbered 1 to 6. Across the upper right, huge purple block letters with a white drop shadow spell CONTROL TOWER, with a slanted cursive signature above. The sky is a green-to-yellow-to-orange sunset with streaked clouds and a red helicopter silhouette. Two men stand in the foreground bottom centre: one in a red jacket, one in purple coveralls and a pale cap. Grey-green machinery with dials and a yellow button box sits lower right.