1959 · Williams
Rocket
Plain sky-blue sky, cratered yellow moon upper right, small dark-blue sphere upper left, white clouds and green ground along the bottom edge and red apple with green leaf lower right.
- Year
- 1959
- 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
- blue
- red
- yellow
- white
Fingerprint: Seven numbered rockets 1 to 7 sweeping diagonally upward with yellow flame tails across sky-blue field, cratered yellow moon at upper right, red apple with green leaf at lower right, slanted red script ROCKET outlined yellow-black low and centred, numbered circles 1 to 8 across top edge, tall chevron-patterned scoring ladders flanking sides
Seven numbered rockets with white numerals 1 to 7 sweeping diagonally upward across a plain sky-blue field, each with a yellow flame tail, is the signature image. A cratered yellow moon floats at the upper right while a red apple with a single green leaf rests at the lower right, and a small empty white square panel sits midway down the right side. The slanted red script title ROCKET, outlined in yellow and black, sits low and centred over white cloud and green ground. Colourful numbered circles 1 to 8 span the entire top edge, and tall chevron-patterned scoring ladders flank the picture on both sides.
Setting
- Plain sky-blue sky
- Cratered yellow moon upper right
- Small dark-blue sphere upper left
- White clouds and green ground along the bottom edge
- Red apple with green leaf lower right
Symbols
- Eight numbered circles 1 to 8 across the top
- Cratered moon
- Red apple
- Small blue sphere or planet
- Chevron herringbone patterned side panels
- Small blank white square panel on the right
Lettering
- Large slanted red brush script with yellow and black outline for the title; block sans-serif white numerals in coloured circles and in the side scoring ladders
Themes
- Space
- Rockets
- Shooting gallery
- Moon
- Score ladders
Title on it
- Rocket
Text on it
- 4 MILLIONS
- THOUSANDS
- ROCKET
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 600
- 500
- 400
- 300
- 200
- 100
- 80
- 70
- 60
- 50
- 40
- 30
- 20
- 10
- 00
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Vehicle | Seven slim cream-and-red rockets with yellow conical flame tails, dark-tipped noses and thin trailing smoke lines, each stencilled with a white numeral 1 to 7, arranged diagonally ascending across the sky |
| Vehicle | A taller upright red-and-cream rocket on fins standing on the green ground at the lower left, partly behind the title |
Painted wooden-framed backglass of a rocket and missile shooting gallery, in a flat mid-century airbrushed cartoon style. A plain sky-blue sky fills the centre, with a crater-pocked yellow moon in the upper right. Seven slim rockets with cream and red bodies, yellow flame tails and thin trailing smoke lines climb diagonally across the sky, each stencilled with a white numeral from 1 to 7; a small dark-blue sphere floats at upper left and a red apple with a green leaf sits low on the right. Along the very top runs a horizontal row of eight numbered circles, 1 to 8, alternating red, blue, yellow and green with white numerals. Both edges carry vertical scoring ladders inside coloured chevron panels: the left headed 4 MILLIONS above the values 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100, and the right headed THOUSANDS above 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10. Across the lower centre the word ROCKET appears in large slanted red script with a yellow and black outline, and a faint pale artist signature is scratched just above the final letters. The bottom edge shows white clouds, a strip of green ground and a tall upright red-and-cream rocket on legs at lower left. Dominant colours are sky blue, red, yellow and white.