1959 · Williams
Crossword
Bright sky-blue band across the top with a green horizon arc, flat black field behind the central crossword grid, plain white lower border strip along the bottom edge and dark green and black wedge shapes on the right side.
- Year
- 1959
- 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.
Backglass
- blue
- white
- yellow
- red
Fingerprint: Giant stepped white crossword grid cross-shaped yellow letters spelling CAPE CAT RAT CAR CAP ATE TEA TOAST visible cells, mirrored ladders colored triangular arrows climbing left-right edges numbered 1 to 8 left and 100 to 800 right with MILLIONS THOUSANDS headings, blonde woman blue uniform man red jacket painted contestants bottom corners, horseman white shirt raised arm printed blue sky top-right
The centrepiece is a giant stepped white crossword grid, cross-shaped, with yellow letters spelling short words such as CAPE, CAT, RAT, CAR, CAP, ATE, TEA, ATE, TOAST and TEA visible in the cells. Around it, two mirrored ladders of coloured triangular arrows climb the left and right edges, numbered 1 to 8 upwards on the left and 100 to 800 upwards on the right, with MILLIONS and THOUSANDS headings. A blonde woman in a blue uniform and a man in a red jacket are painted as contestants at the bottom corners, and a horseman in a white shirt with a raised arm is printed in the blue sky at top right.
Setting
- Bright sky-blue band across the top with a green horizon arc
- Flat black field behind the central crossword grid
- Plain white lower border strip along the bottom edge
- Dark green and black wedge shapes on the right side
Symbols
- Stepped cross-shaped crossword grid
- Raised yellow letter tiles
- Triangular arrow banners
- Coloured numbered discs
- Oval number tokens along the bottom
- Arc of light bulbs behind the title
- White horse
Lettering
- Crossword is a large red-orange serif capital title on a yellow-backed marquee of round white bulbs, black-outlined, arranged on a shallow arc. grid letters are chunky yellow block capitals with black outlines. side headings millions and thousands are bold red capitals on yellow banners. the top-left name is a small yellow-green cursive script signature.
Themes
- Crossword puzzle
- Word game
- Quiz
- Contestants
- Horseman
- Marquee lights
Title on it
- Crossword
Text on it
- CROSSWORD
- Williams
- MILLIONS
- THOUSANDS
- CAPE
- CAP
- CAT
- CAR
- RAT
- ATE
- TEA
- TOAST
- 8
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 100
- 200
- 300
- 400
- 500
- 600
- 700
- 800
- 00
- 10
- 20
- 30
- 40
- 50
- 60
- 70
- 80
- 90
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Top right, a man in a white shirt and pale straw-coloured hat with one arm raised, mounted on or leaping from a horse, drawn against the blue sky; heavily obscured by a bright white glare in the photograph. |
| Woman | Bottom left, a blonde woman with short waved hair and a cheerful open-mouthed smile, wearing a blue uniform jacket with a red-and-white striped collar or scarf, facing right towards the grid. |
| Man | Bottom right, a man in a red jacket over a white shirt with dark blue trousers, turned leftwards towards the grid, head cropped or small at this resolution. |
A white crossword grid forms a stepped cross shape in the centre, its cells outlined in black and partly filled with raised yellow block letters. Across the top, on a sky-blue band with a green horizon arc, the word CROSSWORD arcs in red-orange serif capitals on a marquee of white light bulbs. At top right a man in a white shirt and pale hat raises one arm beside a horse against the blue sky, partly lost in glare; a cursive signature sits top left. Down the left edge, coloured triangular arrow banners carry white numerals 8 down to 1 in coloured discs, under the word MILLIONS. On the right, a matching arrow stack carries 100 up to 800 beneath a curved THOUSANDS label, and oval tokens 00 to 90 run along the bottom. Two cartoon contestants flank the grid: a blonde woman in a blue uniform with striped collar at bottom left, and a man in a red jacket and blue trousers at bottom right. The field behind the grid is flat black.