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1951 · Williams

Horseshoes

Suburban back garden, concrete patio slab, flower bed, brown sandpit, green lawn and white picket edging.

Year
1951
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.

Horseshoes backglass

Backglass

  • blue
  • green
  • red
  • yellow

Fingerprint: "HORSE SHOES" title on red-orange signboard in slanted cream block letters. Nine bonus panels (100000-900000) in orange, green, purple, blue, red, teal, magenta arranged in row. Blue-and-yellow points chart with numerals 1-9. Six young people in 1950s swimwear scattered across garden scene. Crouching man in bright yellow shirt holding horseshoe.

Distinctive

A huge red-orange signboard reading HORSE SHOES in slanted cream block letters, with a white cursive wordmark tucked to its left. Nine orange-outlined bonus panels numbered 100 000 to 900 000 run in a row directly under the top reel digits. A blue points chart with a yellow frame and oversized white numerals 1-9 stands in the foreground grass. A crouching young man in a bright yellow shirt holds a horseshoe aloft in the lower left corner.

Setting

  • Suburban back garden
  • Concrete patio slab
  • Flower bed
  • Brown sandpit
  • Green lawn
  • White picket edging

Symbols

  • Horseshoes
  • Flowers
  • Grass tufts
  • Score reels
  • Bonus value panels
  • Rocking horse silhouette at lower left
  • Yellow horse-tack box with a horseshoe at lower right

Lettering

  • Large slanted cream and yellow sans-serif block capitals with black drop shadow for the title, white cursive script wordmark, white block capitals for the bonus values and the points chart

Themes

  • Horseshoes
  • Garden party
  • Swimwear
  • Outdoor leisure
  • Bonus ladder
  • Score reels

Title on it

  • Horse shoes

Text on it

  • MILLION
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 100 000
  • 200 000
  • 300 000
  • 400 000
  • 500 000
  • 600 000
  • 700 000
  • 800 000
  • 900 000
  • Williams
  • HORSE SHOES
  • POINTS
  • 10
  • 20
  • 30
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Young man in lower left, short brown hair, bright yellow short-sleeved shirt and dark red trousers, crouching and holding a horseshoe up in his right hand
Woman Left, blonde bobbed hair, blue halter-neck top and purple shorts, standing with arms slightly out
Woman Centre foreground, red hair under a red swim cap, blue-and-white striped one-piece, blue skirted trunks, back to viewer with arm raised to her head
Woman Centre, blonde short hair, purple halter top and blue skirted swimsuit, standing behind the points chart
Woman Centre right, brunette hair in a bun, red one-piece swimsuit with white trim, standing beside the blonde
Woman Far right near the sandpit, red hair, white shorts and a top, one hand raised shading her eyes
Man Far right background, red shirt and light trousers, standing behind the woman at the sandpit
Full description

Wide rectangular pinball backglass in bright mid-century cartoon style, framed by a blue score panel across the top and a green lawn scene below. The top blue band carries large coloured reel numerals 1 2 3 4 5 6 flanked by white MILLION labels, and beneath them a row of nine rounded rectangular bonus panels in orange, green, purple, blue, red, teal, magenta, green and orange, reading 100 000, 200 000, 300 000, 400 000, 500 000, 600 000, 700 000, 800 000 and 900 000, each panel divided by arrow-like chevrons. Below, a huge red-orange signboard with a white border carries the title in slanted cream-white and yellow block letters with black shadow, preceded by a white cursive manufacturer wordmark. The scene shows a suburban back garden: a concrete patio slab, a flower bed of red and white blooms, a brown sandpit with a horseshoe lying in it, a white horseshoe on the paving, and a green lawn. Six young people in 1950s swimwear are scattered across the scene, and a young man in a yellow shirt crouches in the lower left holding up a horseshoe. A blue-and-yellow POINTS scoring chart with big white numbers stands in the lower centre-right. Dominant colours: blue, green, red-orange, yellow.