Betty Boop's Ups and Downs

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Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	Mae Questel
Animation by	Willard Bowsky Ugo D'Orsi
Color process	Black-and-white
Production company	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 14, 1932 (1932-10-14)
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Betty Boop's Ups and Downs is a 1932 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop.^[1]

The short subject makes light of the rash of foreclosures and property auctions in the economic turmoil of the Great Depression, together with some of the distinctive surrealism of the Fleischer style of this era.

Plot

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A destitute Betty is evicted from her home, which has a "FOR SALE" sign beside it. After Bimbo hauls away Betty and her meager belongings in a horse-drawn cart, the vacant house starts to fall apart. The asking price on the sign goes down with each additional decay, which the chimney itself fixes, until the house is ramshackle and the asking price is "Or what have you?", which frustrates the chimney.

The camera view then pulls back up into the air, showing all the houses in the town also have "For Sale" signs. The view continues up show all of North America "For Sale", and finally the whole Earth is for sale. The Earth goes up for auction with the Moon serving as auctioneer and the planets start bidding, singing to the tune of "London Bridge Is Falling Down". Mars and Venus bid first, but Saturn is the eventual buyer. He pulls a large horse-shoe magnet out from the Earth, eliminating the planet's gravity, just to see what happens. Buildings, trees, animals, and people including Betty start floating into the air with humorous effect. Finally a hand reaches out from the Earth and grabs the magnet back from Saturn. Gravity is restored, and everything and everybody return to the ground. A series of buildings fall atop Betty, but she avoids injury as she emerges from the top of the pile of buildings singing "Any old place upon this Earth is home sweet home to me".

References

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^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

External links

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v t e Betty Boop films
1932	Stopping the Show Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee Betty Boop, M.D. Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle Betty Boop's Ups and Downs Betty Boop for President Minnie the Moocher I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You Betty Boop's Museum
1933	Betty Boop's Ker-Choo Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions Is My Palm Read? Betty Boop's Penthouse Snow-White Betty Boop's Birthday Party Betty Boop's May Party Betty Boop's Big Boss Mother Goose Land Popeye the Sailor The Old Man of the Mountain I Heard Morning, Noon and Night Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
1934	She Wronged Him Right Red Hot Mamma Ha! Ha! Ha! Betty in Blunderland Betty Boop's Rise to Fame Betty Boop's Trial Betty Boop's Life Guard Poor Cinderella There's Something About a Soldier Betty Boop's Little Pal Betty Boop's Prize Show Keep in Style When My Ship Comes In
1935	Baby Be Good Taking the Blame Stop That Noise Swat the Fly No! No! A Thousand Times No!! A Little Soap and Water A Language All My Own Betty Boop and Grampy Judge for a Day Making Stars Betty Boop with Henry, the Funniest Living American
1936	Little Nobody Betty Boop and the Little King Not Now Betty Boop and Little Jimmy We Did It A Song a Day More Pep You're Not Built That Way Happy You and Merry Me Training Pigeons Grampy's Indoor Outing Be Human Making Friends
1937	House Cleaning Blues Whoops! I'm a Cowboy The Hot Air Salesman Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow Pudgy Picks a Fight! The Impractical Joker Ding Dong Doggie The Candid Candidate Service with a Smile The New Deal Show The Foxy Hunter Zula Hula
1938	Riding the Rails Be Up to Date Honest Love and True Out of the Inkwell The Swing School Pudgy and the Lost Kitten Buzzy Boop Pudgy the Watchman Buzzy Boop at the Concert Sally Swing On with the New Thrills and Chills
1939	My Friend the Monkey So Does an Automobile Musical Mountaineers The Scared Crows Rhythm on the Reservation

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