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1977 · Allied Leisure

Getaway

Night-time city street, red-brick building facades left and right, domed civic building at the vanishing point and dark blue night sky with crescent moon.

Year
1977
Maker
Allied Leisure
Type
Solid state
Display
Alphanumeric
Players
4

Made by

Design
Bob Betor
Art
R. Michael Torrey

Vision analysis

On the backglass

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

Getaway backglass

Backglass

  • black
  • red
  • yellow
  • light blue

Fingerprint: GETAWAY painted as huge slanted yellow block letters with red outline lying across black road surface, cream-and-black 1920s open touring getaway car frozen in middle of narrow black night street with two flat-capped men standing on left pavement beside it, yellow crescent moon in dark navy sky above silhouette of domed civic building, giant BANK sign with black letters on white dominating left brick wall

Distinctive

A cream-and-black 1920s open touring getaway car frozen in the middle of a narrow black night street, with two flat-capped getaway men in pale blue and dark suits standing on the left pavement beside it. The word GETAWAY is painted as huge slanted yellow block letters with a red outline, lying across the black road surface as if part of the perspective. A yellow crescent moon hangs in the dark navy sky above the silhouette of a domed civic building at the vanishing point, while a gigantic slanted BANK sign with black letters on white dominates the left brick wall. A light-blue police shield badge with yellow roundels is sliced in half by the bottom edge of the artwork.

Setting

  • Night-time city street
  • Red-brick building facades left and right
  • Domed civic building at the vanishing point
  • Dark blue night sky with crescent moon

Symbols

  • Light-blue police shield badge with yellow roundels
  • Crescent moon
  • Street lamp with round yellow globe
  • Arched doorway
  • Yellow balls scattered on the road
  • Domed building silhouette

Lettering

  • Getaway in large slanted italic yellow sans-serif capitals with red outline, laid into the road perspective; bank in heavy black capitals on a white slanted sign; player numerals 1-4 in yellow with blue outline inside blue-ringed discs

Themes

  • Getaway
  • Bank
  • Night city street
  • Police
  • Gangster car
  • One-point perspective

Title on it

  • Getaway

Text on it

  • GETAWAY
  • BANK
  • CE
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
Who and what
Kind Description
Vehicle Cream and black open-top 1920s touring car, round headlamps, vertical grille, four big black spoked wheels, black fenders, driver and passenger as dark silhouettes inside
Man Standing on left pavement in a pale blue suit and matching hat, holding a long-barrelled gun or shotgun angled down towards the road
Man Crouching low on the left pavement beside the first man, dressed in dark clothing with a dark cap
Man Silhouetted in the driving seat of the car
Man Silhouetted in the passenger seat of the car
Full description

A painted night-time city street scene in one-point perspective, framed by two red-brick building facades that converge on a small domed building at the vanishing point. Left side: a huge slanted white sign with heavy black capital letters reading BANK over the brickwork, a grey stone column base, an arched doorway and yellow-lit sash windows. Right side: a white sign with blue outline showing the letters CE, more yellow-lit windows, and a street lamp with a round yellow globe on a slim post. The sky is very dark navy-black with a bright yellow crescent moon, and the black roadway is crossed by big slanted yellow letters with a red outline spelling GETAWAY across the lower centre. In the middle distance a cream-and-black 1920s open touring car with big spoked wheels, round headlights and a vertical grille is stopped dead centre, with small dark silhouettes of a driver and passenger aboard and loose yellow balls scattered on the cobbles around it. On the left pavement two men stand by the kerb, one in a pale blue suit and hat holding a long-barrelled gun angled down, the other crouching low in dark clothing. The bottom edge is cut off by a large light-blue police-style shield badge with yellow roundels. Four player positions are marked by small blue-outlined circles carrying the numerals 1, 2, 3 and 4, each beside a rectangular window with a blue frame and dark maroon translucent insert. Small white copyright print and a tiny logo sit at the extreme bottom left. Flat, hard-edged cartoon comic illustration with heavy black outlines.