Ups 'n Downs explained

Director:Hugh Harman
Rudolf Ising
Animator:Rollin Hamilton
Paul J. Smith
Starring:Johnny Murray
Music:Frank Marsales
Producer:Hugh Harman
Rudolf Ising
Leon Schlesinger (associate producer)
Studio:Harman-Ising Productions
Distributor:Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Color Process:Black-and-white
Color Systems, Inc. (1973 Korean redrawn three-strip color edition with "Kindly Leave the Stage" music and had a cut endings)
Runtime:6 minutes, 50 seconds
Language:English

Ups N' Downs is a 1931 Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Bosko.[1] It was released in April 1931 and is directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising.[2] The film score was written by Frank Marsales.

Plot

Bosko is working as a hot dog salesman at a fair, and is determined to win the fair's race with his self-built mechanical horse. Despite fierce competition from riders and their legislate horses, along with the efforts of a cheating jockey who uses his spit and even a hand grenade to hinder Bosko, Bosko crosses the finish line using his horse's extendable neck and is crowned the winner of the race.

Alternate version and ending

When the cartoon was re-released by pirate distributor Astra TV in the 1950s, it was renamed Off to the Races and had a cut ending.[3] The 1973 redrawn colorized version was sourced from an incomplete copy, and thus has a significantly different ending: the hand grenade destroys Bosko's mechanical horse, but also sends him flying into the cheating jockey and knocks him off his own horse, which Bosko is then able to use to win the race.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Beck . Jerry . Friedwald . Will . Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons . 1989 . Henry Holt and Co . 0-8050-0894-2 . 3.
  2. Book: Lenburg . Jeff . The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . 1999 . Checkmark Books . 0-8160-3831-7 . June 6, 2020 . 57–58.
  3. Web site: Cartoon Carnival #1. YouTube.