1956 · Williams
Super Score
Stylised american city: a starry turquoise night or day sky at left, a dense skyline of art-deco skyscrapers in the middle and right including a green tower with cursive signage, and a street-level foreground with pavement, streetlamp globes, a red railing, a yellow taxi and a black car receding into the distance.
- Year
- 1956
- 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
- turquoise
- bright yellow
- red
- grey
Fingerprint: super score, four-panel comic layout, blonde pin-up in red-white striped swimsuit left panel against turquoise sky with stars, tall grey art-deco skyscraper with red-bordered score windows 9000 down to 1000 center, huge yellow SUPER SCORE billboard red letters right, street scene with taxi policeman below
The most striking feature is the monumental yellow SUPER SCORE billboard in red dimensional block letters, which takes up the whole upper right quadrant and reads like a 1950s cinema marquee. Second, the pin-up blonde in the red-and-white striped swimsuit set against a star-spattered turquoise sky occupies the entire left third. Third, the central grey skyscraper with its neat descending ladder of red-framed score windows from 9000 down to 1000. Fourth, the tiny policeman figure in tan uniform and peaked cap standing at street level below, dwarfed by the buildings and the taxi cabs.
Setting
- Stylised american city: a starry turquoise night or day sky at left, a dense skyline of art-deco skyscrapers in the middle and right including a green tower with cursive signage, and a street-level foreground with pavement, streetlamp globes, a red railing, a yellow taxi and a black car receding into the distance
Symbols
- Scattered five-pointed stars in the turquoise sky
- Red-bordered rectangular score windows stacked vertically on the skyscraper
- Grid of small red score panels beneath the yellow billboard
- Red railing and globe streetlamps at street level
- A tall green tower with cursive script signage at upper right
- A small red super panel at the top of the skyscraper's score column
Lettering
- Large red uppercase three-dimensional block letters with dark drop shadows and yellow edging on the billboard, reading super over score; numerals in the score windows are tall condensed red-orange block digits on pale yellow panels
Themes
- City skyline
- Pin-up girl
- Super score
- Score ladder
- Street scene with taxis
- Art-deco skyscrapers
- Policeman
Title on it
- Super score
Text on it
- SUPER
- SUPER SCORE
- 9000
- 8000
- 7000
- 6000
- 5000
- 4000
- 3000
- 2000
- 1000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | A blonde pin-up woman with upswept hair, red-and-white striped one-piece swimsuit, hands held behind her back, legs together, standing on a small platform (left panel) |
| Other | A policeman in a tan/khaki uniform with peaked cap and dark tie, standing on the pavement near a red railing (lower centre-left) |
| Other | A partially visible figure seated at the extreme bottom-left corner |
| Other | Several small distant pedestrians on the right-hand pavement |
| Other | Occupants of a yellow taxi and a black car at lower right |
A four-panel comic-strip style pinball backglass. Left panel: a blonde pin-up woman in a red-and-white horizontally striped one-piece swimsuit, arms behind her back, standing on a small pink-topped platform against a turquoise sky scattered with green and white five-pointed stars. Centre: a tall grey-and-white art-deco skyscraper whose front face carries a vertical column of ten red-bordered rectangular score windows reading downwards 9000, 8000, 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000, 3000, 2000, 1000, crowned by a small red SUPER panel. Right panel: a huge yellow billboard with big red three-dimensional block lettering SUPER SCORE above a grid of smaller red score panels, backed by a green tower bearing cursive script lettering. Bottom strip: a policeman in a tan uniform and peaked cap stands on a pavement near a red railing, with a yellow taxi and a black car on a receding city street and small pedestrians.