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