Ups 'n Downs

For the Bud Powell album, see Ups 'n Downs (album).

Ups N' Downs is the eighth title in the Looney Tunes series featuring Bosko.^[1] It was released as early as January 31, 1931.^[2] It is directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising,^[3] while the film score was written by Frank Marsales.

Ups 'n Downs
Still taken from the feature
Directed by	Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising
Produced by	Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Associate Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Johnny Murray (uncredited)
Music by	Frank Marsales
Animation by	Rollin Hamilton Paul J. Smith
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)
Production company	Harman-Ising Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	January 31, 1931 (1931-01-31) (earliest known date)
Running time	6:50 (1931 version) 5:50 (1950's version) 6:10 (1973 version)
Language	English

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. Since it was sourced from an incomplete copy, the cartoon abruptly ends with the hand grenade going off, and cutting to a "THE END" title card.^[4] The 1973 redrawn colorized version was also sourced from the same incomplete copy, and thus has a significantly different ending produced; 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.^[5]