Launcher

Type to filter results. Use arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select.

You've reached the end of the results

1948 · Genco

Screwball

Flat olive-green painted background, coiled cream serpentine score ribbon filling the centre, yellow ground band along the bottom edge and wooden cabinet edge visible around the glass.

Year
1948
Maker
Genco
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Harvey Heiss
Art
Roy Parker

Vision analysis

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Screwball backglass

Backglass

  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • cream

Fingerprint: Grinning cartoon clown in red-yellow polka-dot costume with ruffled collar, arms flung out with index fingers pointing upward, bursting from coiled spiral of numbered score-bands, cream number blocks (10 down to 1) around left-bottom edge, butter-yellow "Crewball" script with gold 3D shadow under GENCO'S banner, "Million" on maroon ribbon, orange bulb assembly lower-right, carnival atmosphere

Distinctive

A grinning cartoon clown in a red-and-yellow polka-dot costume with a ruffled collar, arms flung out with both index fingers pointing upward, bursting out of a coiled spiral of numbered score bands. A chain of oversized cream number blocks counting 10 down to 1 climbs the left edge and sweeps across the bottom like a carnival countdown. The title is a huge butter-yellow script Crewball with a fat gold 3D shadow, tucked under a curved GENCO'S banner, with Million on a maroon ribbon across the middle. Bottom right carries a real illuminated orange bulb assembly that glows through the artwork.

Setting

  • Flat olive-green painted background
  • Coiled cream serpentine score ribbon filling the centre
  • Yellow ground band along the bottom edge
  • Wooden cabinet edge visible around the glass

Symbols

  • Spinning top, striped red and cream, upper right
  • Arrow motif behind the top
  • Number blocks styled as dice
  • Polka dots
  • Spiral score ribbon
  • Glowing bulb assembly bottom right

Lettering

  • Large flowing italic script with heavy three-dimensional gold drop shadow and red keyline; genco's in slanted sans-serif capitals on a curved cream banner; million in cream script on a maroon lozenge

Themes

  • Circus
  • Carnival
  • Clown
  • Spinning top
  • Countdown
  • Score ladder

Title on it

  • Crewball

Text on it

  • GENCO'S
  • Crewball
  • Million
  • 10
  • 9
  • 8
  • 7
  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 40,000
  • 50,000
  • 60,000
  • 70,000
  • 80,000
  • 90,000
  • 600,000
  • 700,000
  • 800,000
  • 900,000
  • 1,000,000
  • 2,000,000
  • 30,000
  • 20,000
  • 10,000
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Single male clown, cartoon, chest-up and centred. white face with rosy cheeks, wide toothy grin, bulbous nose, orange curly hair, small red cap with yellow stripes and a yellow point. cream ruffled collar, red jacket covered in large cream polka dots. both arms thrown outward and up, hands open with the index finger of each hand pointing skyward; a wrist ruff on the left arm.
Full description

Vertically oriented backglass illustration on an olive-green ground, framed by a wooden cabinet edge. A large cartoon clown dominates the centre: a grinning man with a small red-and-yellow crown cap, orange curly hair, white face with rosy cheeks and a wide toothy grin, a cream ruffled collar, and a red costume covered in large cream polka dots. He holds both arms out with the index finger raised on each hand, palms forward. Behind and around him a cream serpentine ribbon of score bands spirals in tight loops, printed with red, yellow, green and cream numbers in the tens and hundreds of thousands. Across the top a curved cream-and-red banner reads GENCO'S above a huge butter-yellow script Crewball with red keyline and a heavy gold three-dimensional drop shadow, and beneath it a maroon lozenge carries Million in cream script. Along the left edge a diagonal chain of cream number blocks runs 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, and along the bottom a matching arc of blocks reads 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. A glowing orange bulb assembly sits at the lower right and the surface shows age spots, scuffs and reflection haze.