1948 · Williams
Dew-Wa-Ditty
Blue sky with streaky white clouds, green rolling hills with a winding dirt road, red wooden general store with porch and white-lettered sign, old blue car, horse-drawn wagon, small white farmhouse on the horizon, grey moon and blue-and-white wavy stripes on the left.
- Year
- 1948
- 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
- black
- yellow
- magenta
- turquoise
Fingerprint: DEW·WA·DITTY title in fat yellow letters on magenta crackle banner, giant yellow-white musical note ribbon curling down left side lettered along its length, grinning man in teal suit holding chrome revolver upright, ten brightly coloured capsule-shaped score bars down central black stripe, blonde women off-shoulder dresses pale blue shawls at lower right, horse-drawn wagon approaching rural general store
A giant yellow-and-white musical note ribbon curling down the entire left side, lettered along its length, beside a grinning man in a teal suit holding a chrome revolver upright. Ten brightly coloured capsule-shaped score bars stacked down a central black stripe, each split into two differently coloured halves. A fat yellow Dew·Wa·Ditty title on a magenta crackle banner set in a blue-sky landscape with a rural general store scene. Two blonde women in off-shoulder dresses with pale blue shawls at lower right, and a horse-drawn wagon approaching the store.
Setting
- Blue sky with streaky white clouds
- Green rolling hills with a winding dirt road
- Red wooden general store with porch and white-lettered sign
- Old blue car
- Horse-drawn wagon
- Small white farmhouse on the horizon
- Grey moon
- Blue-and-white wavy stripes on the left
Symbols
- Musical notes
- Quaver and beamed note groups
- Five-pointed stars in red, yellow, green and blue
- Crescent-pattern swirl ribbon
- Revolver
- Horse and wagon
- Moon
- Road with directional arrows
Lettering
- Fat yellow bubble sans-serif capitals and lower-case with heavy black drop shadow on a magenta crackle banner, joined by centred dots; surrounding text in black block capitals on yellow ribbons; logo in yellow cursive script on black
Themes
- Country western
- Musical notes
- Rural store
- Cowboy
- Gunfight
- Hillbilly
Title on it
- Dew·wa·ditty
Text on it
- Dew·Wa·Ditty
- Williams
- BOUT THE SOUTH
- THAT'S WHAT I CALL
- GENERAL STORE
- 900,000
- 800,000
- 80,000
- 700,000
- 70,000
- 600,000
- 60,000
- 500,000
- 50,000
- 400,000
- 40,000
- 300,000
- 30,000
- 200,000
- 20,000
- 100,000
- 10,000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Bottom left, clean-shaven dark-haired man, pale skin, broad grin, bright teal/blue double-breasted suit with white pocket square, white shirt, red-and-white striped tie, gripping a large chrome revolver upright in both hands |
| Woman | Bottom right foreground, blonde wavy hair, red lipstick, pale blue-green off-shoulder top with a pale blue fringed shawl and a dark choker, head tilted, facing the viewer |
| Woman | Behind her at right, blonde hair in an updo, red dress with a pale blue shawl, arms folded, standing on the store porch |
| Man | Small figure in a blue suit seen from behind, walking away towards the store |
| Vehicle | Dark blue 1930s-style car on the hill road |
| Animal | Two brown horses pulling a covered wagon down the road |
A wide painted backglass split into two halves by a tall black scoring panel carrying ten horizontal rounded-end bars. The bars read, top to bottom, 900,000 down to 100,000 in large white block numerals with a black shadow, each paired with a smaller figure on its right (90,000 down to 10,000); every bar is a differently coloured capsule — magenta and orange, red and yellow, orange and green, yellow and turquoise, green and purple, turquoise and red, purple and orange, red and yellow, orange and green — and small coloured stars are scattered over the black ground between them. Upper left carries a yellow cursive script logo on black with a star either side. Upper right shows blue sky with white clouds, a yellow musical-ribbon banner arcing across with black music notes and red stars, curved black lettering above it, a grey moon, and a large magenta crackle-leaved banner reading Dew·Wa·Ditty in fat yellow letters with black shadow. Left side: a big swirling yellow-and-white ribbon curling from top to bottom, lettered along its length, over blue-and-white wavy stripes. Bottom left a smiling clean-shaven dark-haired man in a bright teal suit, white shirt and red striped tie, holding a large chrome revolver upright across his chest. Bottom right: a blonde woman in a purple off-shoulder dress with a pale blue shawl and a choker, and behind her a second blonde woman in a red dress with a blue shawl; a man in a blue suit walks away towards a red general store with a white-lettered sign, an old car and a horse-drawn wagon, on green rolling hills.