1951 · Gottlieb
Globe Trotter
Deep blue night-sky field with white stars, a ringed planet and a crescent moon, six concentric rainbow bands fanning across the lower two thirds, large blue-green globe of the earth at centre, sixteen white-rimmed circular city medallions ringing the globe and bare light-brown wooden cabinet frame visible around all four edges.
- Year
- 1951
- 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
- blue
- red
- yellow
- white
Fingerprint: GLOBE TROTTER with four-engine airliner across blue-green globe, second smaller aircraft beneath, sixteen circular city medallions with skylines, concentric rainbow bands red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple, travel poster air-travel style, no people
A huge white-and-red four-engine airliner is pasted diagonally across a green-and-blue globe, with a second smaller plane beneath it, both dwarfing the arched 'GLOBE TROTTER' logo. The entire lower two thirds is ringed by sixteen white-rimmed circular city medallions, each with its own little painted skyline and coloured name banner, like a travel-agent poster. Six concentric rainbow bands (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) fan out behind the globe, with no people anywhere in the art.
Setting
- Deep blue night-sky field with white stars, a ringed planet and a crescent moon
- Six concentric rainbow bands fanning across the lower two thirds
- Large blue-green globe of the earth at centre
- Sixteen white-rimmed circular city medallions ringing the globe
- Bare light-brown wooden cabinet frame visible around all four edges
Symbols
- Concentric rainbow bands
- Ringed planet
- Crescent moon
- White stars
- 16 circular city medallions
- Numbered jackpot banner 1-5
- Small multicoloured ball icons between the numerals
- White globe with green landmasses and red-outlined map edges
Lettering
- Heavy white sans-serif capitals with red-and-blue 3d drop shadow for the title; italic white capitals on a magenta arrow for the jackpot banner; coloured lozenge panels with contrasting numerals; black hand-lettered capitals on coloured ribbons inside each medallion; red brush script plus small black caps in the maker's cartouche
Themes
- Air travel
- Round-the-world flight
- Aviation
- Cities of the world
- Jumbo jet
- Travel poster
Title on it
- Globe trotter
Text on it
- 1 2 3 4 5 MILLION
- GLOBE TROTTER
- CHICAGO
- NEW YORK
- SANTA MARIA
- LONDON
- PARIS
- TRIPOLI
- GIBRALTAR
- CAIRO
- CASABLANCA
- TEHRAN
- MANILA
- SAN FRANCISCO
- HONOLULU
- DENVER
- ROME
- MIDWAY
- A PRODUCT OF
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- MFGRS. CHICAGO
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Vehicle | Large four-engine airliner, white fuselage with red cheatline and red tail, tall vertical fin, swept wings with two visible engine nacelles, flying left-to-right diagonally across the globe |
| Vehicle | Second smaller white-and-red twin-engine aircraft below and left of the main plane, same markings, also flying right |
| Other | Small blue planet with yellow ring at upper left |
| Other | Yellow crescent moon at upper right |
Translucent-lit backglass set in a bare wooden cabinet frame. A black-outlined banner runs across the top on a blue ground reading '1 2 3 4 5 MILLION', each numeral in its own coloured lozenge (yellow 1, orange-red 2, green 3, blue 4, purple 5) with small multicoloured ball icons between them and 'MILLION' in large white italic capitals on a magenta-purple arrow shape. Below, a deep blue field holds a small ringed planet top-left, a crescent moon and stars top-right, and a vast set of concentric rainbow bands in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple sweeping across the whole lower two thirds. At the centre sits a blue-green globe of the Earth with white oceans and green landmasses, overprinted by a large four-engine white-and-red airliner flying left-to-right with a tall tail fin, plus a second, smaller aircraft below it. The title 'GLOBE TROTTER' arcs across the globe in chunky white block capitals with red-and-blue 3D drop shadow. Sixteen round medallions ring the globe, each a white-rimmed circle containing a hand-drawn skyline, harbour or monument in bright colour with a coloured name banner: Chicago, New York, Santa Maria, London, Paris, Tripoli, Gibraltar, Cairo, Casablanca, Tehran, Manila, San Francisco, Honolulu, Denver, Rome, Midway. No people appear anywhere. Bottom-left, a white cartouche reads 'A PRODUCT OF D. Gottlieb & Co.' in red script with 'MFGRS. CHICAGO' beneath. Style is flat mid-century air-travel-poster cartoon illustration.