1948 · Williams
Saratoga
Pale blue sky with white cloud streaks and a full moon, large white hotel building with red roof and rows of windows, green lawns, flower beds and shrubbery, grey pathway with ornate black street lamps and wooden cabinet frame around the glass.
- Year
- 1948
- 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
- purple
- green
- blue
Fingerprint: SARATOGA arching in red slab-serif capitals, diagonal black-purple striped wedge from top centre to bottom left filled with bubble score numerals 900,000–100,000, two fashionable women with oversized wide-brimmed hats (pink-white stripes and scarlet), red open touring car piled with red-white flowers, elegant strolling couple in red gown and dark suit, Saratoga racecourse scene, blue sky with full moon
A huge diagonal black-and-purple striped wedge running from the top centre to the bottom left corner, packed with rounded bubble score numbers from 900,000 down to 100,000, splitting a bright racecourse scene into two triangles. Two stylish women in enormous wide-brimmed hats, one in pink-and-white stripes and one in scarlet, dominate the bottom right. A red open touring car overflowing with red and white flowers fills the bottom left, mirroring the elegant couple in a red gown and dark suit strolling on the path above it. The title 'SARATOGA' arches steeply upward in red slab-serif capitals against a blue clouded sky with a full moon.
Setting
- Pale blue sky with white cloud streaks and a full moon
- Large white hotel building with red roof and rows of windows
- Green lawns, flower beds and shrubbery
- Grey pathway with ornate black street lamps
- Wooden cabinet frame around the glass
Symbols
- Full moon
- Leafy branches in the upper right corner
- Flagpoles with flags on the hotel roofline
- Ornate black street lamps
- Flower beds
- Cloud streaks
- Diagonal black and purple striped score wedge
- Bubble-outline score numerals
- Glossy light glare reflection on the glass
- Wooden cabinet frame
Lettering
- 'williams' in yellow flowing script on a red banner; 'saratoga' in large red arched slab-serif capitals with white and black outline; score values in rounded bubble numerals with thick white and coloured outlines on alternating purple and black stripes
Themes
- Horse racing
- Racecourse
- Resort hotel
- Leisure travel
- Motor coach
- Horse-drawn carriage
- High fashion hats
- Score ladder
Title on it
- Saratoga
Text on it
- Williams
- SARATOGA
- 900,000
- 90,000
- 9,000
- 800,000
- 80,000
- 8,000
- 700,000
- 70,000
- 7,000
- 600,000
- 60,000
- 6,000
- 500,000
- 50,000
- 5,000
- 400,000
- 40,000
- 4,000
- 300,000
- 30,000
- 3,000
- 200,000
- 20,000
- 2,000
- 100,000
- 10,000
- 1,000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Bottom right bust-length, wide-brimmed white hat with grey trim and a small grey flower, pink-and-white vertically striped high-necked blouse, red lipstick, looking left |
| Woman | Bottom right beside the first, blonde swept-up hair under a small red hat with feathers, bright red high-necked dress, red lipstick, looking left |
| Woman | Bottom left large head and shoulders, blonde waved hair, wide red hat, red round earring, blue eye, red lipstick, facing right in three-quarter view |
| Woman | Left mid-ground on the path, long red floor-length gown, red hat, walking arm in arm |
| Man | Left mid-ground on the path, dark brown suit, white shirt, pale hat, walking with the woman in red |
| Vehicle | Bottom left red open touring car, bodywork almost entirely buried under a heap of red and white flowers |
| Vehicle | Right mid-ground dark blue and black open carriage drawn by a horse, two figures in caps, red plume at the rear |
| Animal | Horse in profile harnessed to the carriage, pale brown body |
Wood-framed backglass with a bright glare near the top centre, showing a Saratoga racecourse scene split by a large diagonal wedge of score values. Top left, a red trapezoid banner carries 'Williams' in yellow flowing script. Top right, the title 'SARATOGA' arches steeply upward in red slab-serif capitals with white and black outline, across a pale blue sky with white cloud streaks, a full moon and green leafy branches in the upper right corner. A black diagonal band edged in white runs from upper centre down to lower left, filled with alternating purple and black stripes bearing rounded bubble score numerals in yellow, magenta, green, blue, orange and white, descending from 900,000 to 100,000 with smaller multipliers alongside. Left of the band: a green lawn, grey path, an elegant couple in a red gown and dark suit, ornate black street lamps, and a red open touring car piled high with red and white flowers. Right of the band: a large white hotel with a red roof and rows of windows, flagpoles, lawns, flower beds, a horse-drawn carriage, and two bust-length women in wide hats at the bottom right, one in pink-and-white stripes, one in scarlet.