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
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Fingerprint: gottlieb's picnic 2-player title, crowd of cartoon park-goers on sunny green field including two handstanding women at left and balding white-whiskered man in brown suit at right with fan of papers, oversized white PICNIC banner, mechanical number drums, bright hand-painted cartoon style, green grass, blue sky, dominant reds and yellows
The single most memorable feature is the crowd of cartoon park-goers mid-game across a sunny green field, including two girls doing handstands at the left and a balding, white-whiskered man in a brown suit at the right holding a fan of papers. A large white picnic banner billows across the upper right with an enormous red 'PICNIC' on it, staked to the grass like real bunting. Mechanical roll-over number drums showing 1 0 3 glow inside chunky red and blue plastic-framed windows low on the glass, framed by a purple and marbled pink cabinet surround.
Setting
- Summer park lawn
- Row of trees
- Blue sky and distant water
- Picnic bunting banner
Symbols
- Round ball-in-play tokens numbered 1 and 2
- Stacked score number drums
- Stack of wooden crates
- Striped ball
- Red and blue frame mouldings
- Bunting banner
- Playing-field bunting
Lettering
- Chunky hand-lettered mixed case; huge red slab-serif 'picnic' with yellow outline and black script 'gottlieb's' on a white flag; bold red and black sans-serif instruction panels; white outlined capitals on a red band
Themes
- Picnic
- Summer
- Park
- Competition
- Outdoor games
- Skill
- Contest
- Outdoor recreation
Title on it
- Gottlieb's picnic 2-player
Text on it
- Gottlieb's
- PICNIC
- 2-PLAYER
- 1 or 2 CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME
- It's More Fun to Compete
- A GAME OF SKILL
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- WINNERS
- 1st PLAYER
- 2nd PLAYER
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 0
- BALL IN PLAY
- Annsmann Pinball
- I HAD A SLICE OF WATERMELON
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Young woman in blue-and-white striped shorts and white top, doing a handstand on the grass at the left |
| Woman | Blonde girl in a red spotted swimsuit and yellow skirt, also inverted in a handstand at upper left |
| Woman | Red-haired girl in a blue top and red shorts, bent sharply forward at the waist near centre |
| Woman | Brunette in a blue sleeveless top and blue jeans standing near centre |
| Man | Boy in a red shirt and dark shorts, standing arms out |
| Man | Boy in a yellow shirt and shorts with arms raised, near centre |
| Man | Boy in a red top and blue shorts mid-run to the right of centre |
| Man | Boy in a red shirt and shorts lunging with a stick or racket at right |
| Man | Elderly balding man with white whiskers, monocle and brown suit, leaning in from the right holding papers |
| Animal | Small brown and white dog near the centre bottom beside a stack of boxes and a ball |
A bright, hand-painted cartoon backglass for a two-player skill game, framed by a wide purple and mottled pink-and-grey border. The scene is a summer afternoon picnic in a park: green grass, blue sky and water at the horizon, a row of leafy trees, and many children and adults playing outdoor games across the middle band. At the left two young women in shorts do handstands and cartwheels; near the centre a red-haired girl bends forward and other girls and boys dance, skip or swing; at the right an elderly man with white whiskers and a bald head in a brown suit leans in holding papers. A flat red band runs along the bottom with white 'BALL IN PLAY' text and an arrow. Two mechanical score windows with roll-over number drums, red-framed on the left and blue-framed on the right, sit low left and low right, each topped by a numbered ball-in-play circle. Dominant colours are green, red, yellow and blue.