1955 · Gottlieb
Frontiersman
Wooded forest clearing with pale green foliage and bare tree trunks, pioneer camp with log cabin at far left, smouldering campfire with stacked logs at mid left, teepee and standing figure on the right, river or lake and low blue hills in the far distance and pale sky with scattered clouds at top centre.
- Year
- 1955
- 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
- green
- red-orange
- yellow
- white
Fingerprint: FRONTIERSMAN title in red-orange with yellow shadow, Gottlieb's scroll, frontiersman in red buckskin shirt with musket, blonde woman in blue checked dress, pioneer camp with teepee and horse, symmetrical torn-paper score ladder, comic-book style with heavy black outlines, saturated colors
The single most memorable feature is a huge red-orange FRONTIERSMAN title with yellow shadow, flanked by a red Gottlieb's scroll and two long orange ribbon banners that frame a white MILLION value. A man in a red fringed buckskin shirt and fur cap holds a musket diagonally across the centre, with a blonde woman in a blue checked dress in profile immediately below the barrel. A symmetrical stepped score ladder of torn-white banners climbs both sides from 100,000 to 900,000 with 400,000 stranded alone on a floating centre banner. The right third is a full camp tableau: a teepee, a fire, a spotted dog, a white horse and a feathered headdress figure against green woods.
Setting
- Wooded forest clearing with pale green foliage and bare tree trunks
- Pioneer camp with log cabin at far left
- Smouldering campfire with stacked logs at mid left
- Teepee and standing figure on the right
- River or lake and low blue hills in the far distance
- Pale sky with scattered clouds at top centre
Symbols
- Rifle/musket
- Teepee
- Campfire
- Log cabin
- Horse
- Dog
- Panpipe
- Feather headdress
- Circled numerals
- Torn-paper value banners
- Two orange ribbon scrolls
Lettering
- Large red-orange block capitals with thick black outline and yellow drop shadow for the title; white hand-painted capitals on the orange ribbons; coloured hand-lettered numerals on white ragged paper banners
Themes
- Wild west
- Pioneer
- Frontiersman
- Native american camp
- Musket rifle
- Campfire
- Teepee
Title on it
- Frontiersman
Text on it
- Gottlieb's
- FRONTIERSMAN
- MILLION
- 900,000
- 800,000
- 700,000
- 600,000
- 500,000
- 400,000
- 300,000
- 200,000
- 100,000
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- Amusement Pinball
- MFG. CO.
- BALL IN PLAY
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Central frontiersman, red fringed buckskin shirt with yellow fringe, yellow fur cap, black-and-white feather braid in his hair, clean-shaven, holding a long musket diagonally with both hands, facing right |
| Woman | Blonde bobbed hair, blue and white checked dress, shown in right-facing profile in the lower centre foreground, head and shoulders only |
| Woman | At far left in a yellow dress, dark hair, holding a black panpipe or flute to her mouth |
| Child | Small child in a red top and blue trousers standing left of centre near the log cabin |
| Child | Second small child in darker clothing beside the first near the cabin |
| Man | At far left in a yellow shirt, arm raised toward the campfire |
| Man | In the middle distance at right in a green shirt and dark trousers, arms outstretched |
| Man | At right in yellow-tan clothing and a feathered headdress, arms lifted |
| Creature | White horse with dark mane and tail at the right edge |
| Animal | White dog with black patches standing near the right foreground |
| Other | Conical teepee with a smoke hole, mid right |
| Other | Log cabin with smoking chimney, far left |
Vertically oriented painted backglass on a black frame, strongly comic-book in style with heavy black outlines and flat saturated colour. Across the top, huge block capitals in red-orange with a yellow drop shadow read FRONTIERSMAN on a dark green field; a small red scroll tucked to the left of the title reads Gottlieb's in white cursive. Two orange-red ribbon banners sweep in from both top corners and cross the middle, the left one carrying MILLION in white capitals and the right one sitting above the score ladder. A stepped score ladder descends down each side on white torn-paper banners: down the left 100,000 (red), 200,000 (orange), 300,000 (violet), with a vertical row of circled numerals 1 to 5 in yellow and violet at the far left; down the right 900,000, 800,000 (green), 700,000 (yellow), 600,000 (orange), 500,000 (red); and 400,000 in green on a floating banner in the centre. The centre scene is a pioneer camp in a forest clearing: a frontiersman in a red fringed buckskin shirt and yellow fur cap with a black-and-white feather braid stands holding a long musket diagonally across the frame, and in front of him a blonde woman in a blue-and-white checked dress is shown in profile. Behind them stand a woman in a yellow dress playing a black panpipe, two small children, a man tending a smoking campfire with a log cabin at the far left, and on the right a figure in a feathered headdress beside a teepee, a white-and-black spotted dog, a white horse and another rider. Bottom right carries a script Amusement Pinball logo with an MFG. CO. box; bottom left a wooden rail reads BALL IN PLAY.