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Title: The Lost Playfield Drawings Of Harry Williams
Post by: Pinballer on October 20, 2016, 09:10:07 AM
A really great read, put together by Duncan Brown after his seminar at this years Pinball Expo.  http://backglass.org/williams/tlpdohw/expo2016/
Title: Re: The Lost Playfield Drawings Of Harry Williams
Post by: Pop Bumper Pete on October 20, 2016, 05:27:41 PM
an interesting project
I am glad he found these drawings and was able to make scans of them
Title: Re: The Lost Playfield Drawings Of Harry Williams
Post by: oldskool1969 on October 20, 2016, 08:03:10 PM
Yep another great reminder of the thrill of the chase, reward and loss.
Some of those drawings look really cool e.g.. CATAPULT
thanks for the post
Title: Re: The Lost Playfield Drawings Of Harry Williams
Post by: 4_amusement_only on October 21, 2016, 03:05:40 AM
Cheers for the link, great read and must have been satisfying to finally close the loop. Duncan has always been very dedicated to Pinball history. Still waiting for his Backglass picture book to be finished though.
Title: Re: The Lost Playfield Drawings Of Harry Williams
Post by: Pinballer on October 21, 2016, 10:14:39 AM
Another article about Harry Williams that Duncan posted.... http://backglass.org/williams/TrueAu...ryWilliams.pdf
Title: Re: The Lost Playfield Drawings Of Harry Williams
Post by: Pinballace on October 21, 2016, 11:47:11 AM
I had the honor to do a separate seminar with Duncan on Saturday at the show where we discussed the history of Williams and the important contributions of a man named Gordon Horlick.  Our subject material was the archives of game folders that Greg Berry and I rescued from IPB in 2009 and some scans that Duncan had of the early game designs.  The archives I have go all the way back to 1946 and the very first Williams production game "Suspense".  We used a power point presentation of around 200 scans of the archives from the game folders.  Not sure how I can post them or make them available to everyone but I do have the files uploaded on my google drive.   


http://www.pinballnews.com/shows/expo2016/index.html (http://www.pinballnews.com/shows/expo2016/index.html)

-James