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1950 · Gottlieb

Select-A-Card

Flat magenta-pink field, tall lime-green and yellow centre panel, scattered white-outlined tilted playing cards and small white starburst diamonds.

Year
1950
Maker
Gottlieb
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Harry Mabs
Art
Roy Parker

Vision analysis

On the backglass

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

Select-A-Card backglass

Backglass

  • magenta
  • lime green
  • yellow
  • red

Fingerprint: Blonde woman in red polka-dot headscarf and red two-piece swimsuit centered between four overlapping fanned bingo cards marked A, B, C, D, curved ribbon banner reading 'Select-A-Card' arcs above, stacked score plaques on ribbon tags surround upper half, round score plaques, magenta-pink background with playing cards and starbursts, mid-century cartoon style.

Distinctive

The centrepiece is a smiling blonde woman in a red polka-dot headscarf and red two-piece swimsuit, whose bare midriff and shoulders rise between four huge fanned bingo number cards. Each card is a different colour - red, navy blue, green and a second red - and each is stamped with a circled capital letter (A, B, C, D) over its number grid. Above her, the huge red-on-yellow ribbon reading Select-A-Card arcs across a lime-green centre panel, with 1 2 3 4 Million in chunky yellow and blue lettering above that. Ten rounded score plaques on ribbon tags ring the upper half of the glass.

Setting

  • Flat magenta-pink field
  • Tall lime-green and yellow centre panel
  • Scattered white-outlined tilted playing cards
  • Small white starburst diamonds

Symbols

  • Four fanned bingo number cards with circled letters a, b, c and d
  • Playing cards
  • Starbursts
  • Ribbon tags carrying score values
  • Curved scroll banner

Lettering

  • Bold red brush script with black outline on a yellow scroll banner for the title; chunky sans-serif numerals for the scores and 1 2 3 4; large italic blue script with a white drop shadow for the word million

Themes

  • Bingo
  • Playing cards
  • Millionaire
  • Score ladders
  • Beach swimwear
  • Showgirl

Title on it

  • Select-a-card

Text on it

  • 1 2 3 4
  • Million
  • Select-A-Card
  • 300,000
  • 600,000
  • 700,000
  • 900,000
  • 100,000
  • 200,000
  • 400,000
  • 500,000
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • PROPERTY OF
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman One young adult blonde woman, drawn in flat mid-century cartoon style, centred in the lower half and facing the viewer. she wears a red polka-dot headscarf over curled blonde hair, a strapless red bustier-style bikini top, and matching red bottoms; her bare shoulders, arms and midriff show. she smiles with red lips and holds both arms out to either side, hands hidden behind the overlapping bingo cards, as if presenting them.
Full description

A portrait-format backglass dominated by a hot magenta-pink background scattered with white-outlined tilted playing cards and small starburst diamonds. A tall lime-green and yellow panel runs up the centre. Across the top, yellow numerals read 1 2 3 4 with dots, above the word Million in large slanted blue script with a white shadow. Down both upper sides hang rounded score plaques on red and yellow ribbon tags: 300,000 in a grey plaque at top left, 600,000 and 100,000 in yellow and red tags below it, mirrored on the right by 900,000 in pink, 700,000 in yellow, and 500,000 in red, with 200,000, 300,000 and 400,000 in pale and red banners slanting across the middle. A curved yellow ribbon banner with a black outline carries Select-A-Card in bold red script. Below it a single blonde woman in a red two-piece swimsuit and a red polka-dot headscarf smiles out at the viewer, her head and shoulders rising between four overlapping bingo-style number cards fanned out around her: a red card with a circled A, a navy-blue card with a circled B, a green card with a circled C and a second red card with a circled D. Small printed signature text sits bottom right.