1953 · Williams
Grand Champion
Bright blue sky, white corrugated metal show-ring fence, green grass strip, yellow-and-orange mottled show-ring floor, four curved floodlight masts with striped dome lamps and red rope barrier on posts across the foreground.
- 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.
Backglass
- red
- blue
- yellow
- white
Fingerprint: Prize Hereford bull with white face and legs in show ring flanked by four attendants, woman in straw hat and red overalls holding pie, "GRAND CHAMPION" in red dotted block letters inside jagged white starburst, colored shields atop border, triangular bunting with numbers, seven floodlight masts, agricultural fair style
A giant Hereford prize bull with a white face and white legs, standing on its own inside a roped-off show ring, flanked by four people including a woman in red overalls and a wide straw hat balancing a pie on a plate. The title sits inside a jagged white starburst reading GRAND CHAMPION in red dotted block letters, with the maker's name in red cursive script floating above it in the sky. A long string of numbered triangular bunting pennants (10 to 70, each with 000 beneath) zig-zags diagonally across the blue sky beneath four curved floodlight masts. A narrow right-hand column headed POINTS carries three award rosettes and three tiny framed photographs of cattle.
Setting
- Bright blue sky
- White corrugated metal show-ring fence
- Green grass strip
- Yellow-and-orange mottled show-ring floor
- Four curved floodlight masts with striped dome lamps
- Red rope barrier on posts across the foreground
Symbols
- Jagged white starburst
- Triangular bunting pennants
- Striped dome floodlights
- Coloured shield pentagons along top border
- Award rosettes 1st/2nd/3rd
- Red rope barrier
- Printed numerals
- Three framed cattle photographs
- Yellow lamp with a round bulb at the lower right
Lettering
- Grand champion in heavy red sans-serif block capitals with white dot highlights, slightly arched inside a white spiky starburst; the maker's name in flowing red cursive script above; numerals in white condensed sans-serif on coloured panels and pennants; millions and points in white capitals on blue and red bars.
Themes
- Agricultural show
- Livestock judging
- County fair
- Prize bull
- Fairground
- Rodeo ribbons
Title on it
- Grand champion
Text on it
- MILLIONS
- Williams
- GRAND CHAMPION
- POINTS
- 1ST
- 2ND
- 3RD
- 500 000
- 400 000
- 300 000
- 200 000
- 100 000
- 900 000
- 800 000
- 700 000
- 600 000
- 80 000
- 90 000
- 10 000
- 20 000
- 30 000
- 40 000
- 50 000
- 60 000
- 70 000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Young blond man at far left, short-sleeved shirt patterned with red-yellow-white diamonds, bright blue jeans, red socks and shoes, one arm out, holding a small blue prize ribbon in his raised hand; smiling. |
| Woman | Red-haired young woman behind the bull's shoulders in a plain yellow top, one hand resting on the animal's back. |
| Animal | Very large red-brown and white hereford bull, white muzzle and face, white lower legs, red halter with rope, shown in profile facing right, standing inside the ring. |
| Woman | Woman centre-right in a wide-brimmed pale straw hat, red bib overalls over a blue blouse, white gloves and blue-and-white shoes, holding a small pie or cake on a white plate at chest height, smiling. |
| Woman | Blond woman in a magenta/pink long-sleeved top leaning forward behind the woman in red, arm raised, as if hurrying. |
| Creature | Three small framed cattle pictures in the right panel: a red-brown bull, a white sheep or goat, and a brown-and-white cow. |
Painted pinball backglass of an agricultural county-fair scene. The upper half is a bright blue sky over a white corrugated metal fence and a strip of green grass, with four tall curved floodlight masts. A row of coloured shield/pentagon shapes in red, blue, yellow, green and magenta runs along the very top border, and the word MILLIONS is printed in white at top right. Down the left edge is a stack of coloured rectangular score panels carrying white numerals (100 000 to 900 000), while a string of triangular bunting pennants in blue, red, green, yellow, magenta and white stretches diagonally across the sky, each printed 10 to 90 with 000 beneath. Three striped dome lamps hang from the pennant string. Centre-left sits a large white starburst with a ragged, spiky edge, containing GRAND CHAMPION in big red block capitals studded with white dots, and the word Williams in red cursive script above it. The lower half shows four people and a huge prize bull on yellow-and-orange patterned ground behind a red rope barrier: a blond young man in a red-yellow-white checkered shirt, blue jeans and red socks; a red-haired young woman in a yellow shirt; a woman in a wide-brimmed straw hat and red overalls carrying a plate with a pie; and a blond woman in a magenta top. The bull is red-brown with a white face and white legs and a red halter. A small white hanging sign at bottom centre reads GRAND CHAMPION in blue capitals.