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1953 · Williams

Fairway

Golf course fairway with sand bunkers and a pond, pale blue sky, large dark tree trunk and canopy framing the scene and small white clubhouse buildings in the right distance.

Year
1953
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.

Fairway backglass

Backglass

  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • blue

Fingerprint: fairway, blonde woman golfer frozen at backswing in red sleeveless blouse and plaid skirt dead center, framed by massive dark tree trunk whose canopy curves over whole glass, star-spangled ribbon reading numeral plus MILLION spans top, brown owl beside blue STOP signboard at upper right, pool table at bottom-right corner, vertical ladder of coloured score windows left edge, golf-course scene through tree frame

Distinctive

A blonde woman golfer frozen at the top of her backswing in a red sleeveless blouse and plaid skirt, dead centre of a sunlit fairway. She is framed by a massive dark tree trunk whose canopy curves over the top of the whole glass, making the green playfield-like scenery a natural window. A star-spangled red-blue-green-yellow swallow-tail ribbon reading a numeral plus MILLION spans the top edge. A brown owl perched beside a blue STOP signboard appears in the upper right, and a pool table with a white towel draped over its corner occupies the bottom-right corner. Along the left edge runs a vertical ladder of coloured score windows, 900 down to 100, beside a white stepped strip numbered 90 to 10.

Setting

  • Golf course fairway with sand bunkers and a pond
  • Pale blue sky
  • Large dark tree trunk and canopy framing the scene
  • Small white clubhouse buildings in the right distance

Symbols

  • White stars on the top ribbon
  • Stop road sign
  • Pool table and cue ball
  • Owl on a branch
  • White golf ball
  • Red-and-white numbered score windows with arrow shapes
  • Sand bunkers

Lettering

  • Main title in very tall red sans-serif capitals with yellow and white keyline and drop shadow; a yellow cursive script name above it; a black condensed italic word on the yellow ribbon at the top

Themes

  • Golf
  • Sport
  • Leisure
  • Country club

Title on it

  • Fairway

Text on it

  • MILLION
  • Williams
  • FAIRWAY
  • STOP
  • 900
  • 800
  • 700
  • 600
  • 500
  • 400
  • 300
  • 200
  • 100
  • 90
  • 70
  • 60
  • 50
  • 40
  • 30
  • 20
  • 10
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Central blonde woman golfer, sleeveless red top, red-and-white plaid knee-length skirt, white socks, red shoes, arms raised holding a club at the top of a backswing, white golf ball in the air at her left
Woman Left-middle figure in a long red-orange dress standing on the grass
Man Left-middle figure in a blue outfit standing beside the woman in the red-orange dress
Other Roughly seven small background golfers on the right in green, yellow, blue and red clothing, several bent over as if putting or picking up balls
Animal Brown and rust owl-like bird perched on a branch at the upper right, beside the signboard
Full description

A painted, cartoon-illustrated backglass set in a big pale wooden frame, with a golf-course scene viewed through a dark brown tree trunk and leafy green canopy that arches across the top and down the left side. Across the very top runs a swallow-tail ribbon banner in blocks of red, pale blue, green and yellow, each block dotted with small white stars, carrying the black lettering of a large numeral followed by the word MILLION. Centre-top, a yellow cursive script name sits directly above the huge main title FAIRWAY, drawn in tall red capitals with a yellow and white outline. The hero figure is a blonde woman golfer in a sleeveless red top and a red-and-white plaid skirt, white socks and red shoes, caught at the top of her backswing with a club raised behind her and a white ball in the air beside her. Left of her stand a woman in a long red-orange dress and a man in blue. To the right, about seven small figures in green, yellow, blue and red clothing cluster on the green. A blue signboard reading STOP and a brown owl-like bird on a branch sit high on the right. Bottom right is a dark-felt pool table with a white towel over its corner.