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
- green
- red
- white
Fingerprint: gottlieb's happy days: blonde teacher pointing at green chalkboard, schoolroom chaos with six children, boy's cap reads DUNES, speech bubble says WOW SOME CLASS, huge blank 3x3 window grid, colourful lollipop row, painted 1950s style
The most memorable element is the huge empty 3x3 pale-green glazed window panel in the centre, framed by the painted Happy Days title above and a chaotic cartoon schoolroom of children below. A blonde teacher in a white blouse and red calf-length skirt stands at the left of a green chalkboard, pointing a pointer at scribbled chalk marks. The words DUNES on a boy's white paper cap and the speech bubble WOW SOME CLASS from a grinning boy in a side window are small, memorable print details. Score reels read 100 000 through 900 000 in red and green digits on white capsules.
Setting
- Schoolroom interior
- Green chalkboard
- Glazed window panel
- Side window with boy holding newspaper
Symbols
- Shooting star with trail
- Arched coloured windows
- Speech bubbles
- Chalk drawings
- Pointer stick
- Horn
- Newspaper
- Book
- Stool
- Chrome ball-return rail
Lettering
- Mixed: bold white block sans-serif capitals on a red arrow banner, small yellow script brand name, large slanted white-and-red script main title with dark drop shadow, hand-lettered comic capitals in speech bubbles
Themes
- School
- Children
- Teacher
- Happy days
- Quiz
- Million
- Comedy
Title on it
- Gottlieb's happy days
Text on it
- MILLION
- Gottlieb's
- Happy Days
- WOW
- SOME CLASS
- DUNES
- 500 000
- 600 000
- 300 000
- 200 000
- 100 000
- 700 000
- 800 000
- 900 000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Adult blonde teacher, ponytail, white short-sleeved blouse, calf-length red skirt, red heels, standing in profile facing right, holding a long pointer at the chalkboard |
| Man | Schoolboy in blue overalls and white shirt, leaning over a red stool, blonde hair |
| Child | Girl in yellow dress with red spotted kerchief on her head, white socks, holding a small horn/trumpet to her mouth |
| Child | Boy in red and white horizontal striped jumper and blue trousers, wearing a white conical paper cap lettered dunes, reading a book |
| Child | Girl in green and white polka-dot smock with red skirt, dark bobbed hair with bow, seated on the floor |
| Child | Boy in white top with blue collar and dark hair, seated on the floor |
| Child | Toddler in red polka-dot dress with yellow bonnet, arms raised, at lower right centre |
| Child | Red-haired grinning boy in a white shirt, in the green-framed side window at upper right, holding a newspaper |
| Other | Chalk drawings on the green board: a stick figure child and simple cat and dog outlines |
A painted 1950s-style backglass set inside a varnished wooden cabinet frame with a chrome ball-return rail at the bottom. The upper third is a deep blue field carrying the title: a red arrow banner with bold white block capitals reading MILLION, a small yellow-green shooting star with a trail beneath it, and the main logo Gottlieb's in small yellow script above the large words Happy Days, drawn in slanted white-and-red script with a dark blue drop shadow. A row of seven arched lollipop-like colour windows (red, red, pink, green, yellow, red, pale green) runs along the top left. Below, on both sides of a large blank pale-green rectangular window panel divided by dark blue glazing bars into a 3x3 grid of panes, are vertical white capsule score reels with red and green digits: 500 000, 600 000, 300 000, 200 000, 100 000 down the left, and 700 000, 800 000, 900 000 across the top right. The lower third shows a cartoon classroom scene on green and magenta colour-blocked walls: a blonde teacher in a white blouse and calf-length red skirt stands at a green chalkboard pointing with a pointer, chalk scrawls and a child's chalk drawing of cat and dog on the board. Six or seven children in mid-century clothes mill about the floor: a boy in a green polka-dot smock, a girl in a yellow dress with a red kerchief holding a small horn, a boy in blue overalls on a red stool, a boy in a white sailor-style top reading a book, and a boy in a red-and-white striped jumper marked DUNES on his cap. In a green-framed window at upper right a grinning red-haired boy holds a newspaper with a speech bubble reading WOW SOME CLASS. The whole piece is flat, outlined, airbrushed cartoon art.