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1948 · Chicago Coin

Thrill

Starry night sky, sea of stylised dark waves at the bottom and cloudy smoke or exhaust behind the ship.

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

Vision analysis

On the backglass

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

Thrill backglass

Backglass

  • navy blue
  • maroon
  • cream
  • yellow

Fingerprint: THRILL in yellow-teal slab capitals, cream flying liner with stacked decks and red-yellow funnel, yellow-purple lifeboat crowded with laughing passengers, planes and helicopter overhead, rocket or gantry tower at right, curved ribbon reading A MILLION across top, score banners cascading right edge, starry navy sky, comic airbrush.

Distinctive

A cream-coloured flying liner packed with decks, radar domes and a striped red-and-yellow funnel, crowded by a yellow-and-purple open lifeboat full of laughing passengers while little planes and a helicopter swarm overhead. A great curved ribbon reading A MILLION crowns the top, with score banners cascading down the entire right edge. The word THRILL in huge yellow-and-teal slab-serif capitals sits over a starry navy sky. A tall pale rocket/gantry tower rises at the right of the illustration. The lower edge is a band of dark green-black stylised waves.

Setting

  • Starry night sky
  • Sea of stylised dark waves at the bottom
  • Cloudy smoke or exhaust behind the ship

Symbols

  • Stars
  • Stylised wave lines
  • Sunburst medallion above the title
  • Circular score dots on ribbons
  • Portholes
  • Radar dishes
  • Propellers

Lettering

  • Huge cream slab-serif block capitals with yellow faces and a teal three-quarter drop shadow for the title; white flowing cursive script for the maker line; white numerals on coloured ribbon banners for the score ladder

Themes

  • Aviation
  • Ocean liner
  • Air travel
  • Holiday cruise
  • Score ladder

Title on it

  • Thrill

Text on it

  • A MILLION
  • 900,000
  • 800,000
  • 700,000
  • 600,000
  • 500,000
  • Chicago Coin's
  • THRILL
  • 400,000
  • 300,000
  • 200,000
  • 150,000
  • 90,000
  • 80,000
  • 70,000
  • 60,000
  • 50,000
  • 40,000
  • 30,000
  • 20,000
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Young woman with orange-red hair in a ponytail, wearing a sleeveless yellow dress with a green triangular accent, standing in the lifeboat, smiling and gesturing
Man Young man with dark hair in a white shirt with a red scarf, holding a rope or rail, smiling broadly
Child Small fair-haired child in a pink-striped outfit seated in the lifeboat
Woman Another fair-haired female passenger partly visible beside the yellow-dressed woman
Man Man in a yellow shirt and cap standing lower right, near the deck rail
Other Additional small passengers and crew figures in white and yellow scattered on the ship's decks
Vehicle Large white passenger liner / flying ship with stacked decks, round portholes, a red-and-yellow striped funnel, cream radar domes and radar dishes
Vehicle Open lifeboat with yellow interior and purple hull, full of passengers
Vehicle Small propeller aircraft, including a yellow biplane and a blue helicopter, flying around the ship
Vehicle Tall pale white rocket or lattice gantry tower rising at the right of the illustration
Other Stacks of yellow crates or containers and a yellow crane-like loading gantry at the left
Full description

Portrait painted backglass in a light wooden surround. A dark navy star-speckled sky sits behind a deep maroon panel. Across the top a curved crimson ribbon reads A MILLION in fat white capitals, above a fan of coloured score banners: 900,000 yellow, 800,000 cream, 700,000 teal, 600,000 dark green, 500,000 red. The fan descends the whole right edge - 400,000 cream, 300,000 teal, 200,000 yellow, 150,000 white, 90,000 red, 80,000 maroon, 70,000 white, 60,000 black, 50,000 blue, 40,000 yellow, 30,000 red, 20,000 magenta. White cursive script reads Chicago Coin's, and below it the huge title THRILL in slab-serif capitals, cream with yellow faces and a teal drop shadow. The central scene is aviation and leisure: a large white multi-deck liner with portholes, a red-and-yellow striped funnel and radar domes, small propeller planes and a helicopter overhead, a yellow-and-purple lifeboat crowded with passengers at lower left, and a tall pale rocket or gantry tower at right. Stylised mid-century comic airbrush art.