Be Human | |
Director: | Dave Fleischer |
Animator: | Lillian Friedman Myron Waldman |
Starring: | Mae Questel |
Producer: | Max Fleischer |
Studio: | Fleischer Studios |
Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
Country: | United States |
Color Process: | Black-and-white |
Runtime: | 7 minutes |
Language: | English |
Be Human is a 1936 American animated short film starring Betty Boop and Grampy.[1] It is now in the public domain.
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. But the inventive Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.
The abusive farmer has been compared to Billy Joe Gregg, who abused numerous cows and calves at the Conklin Dairy Farms in Ohio in 2010.[2]
The cartoon features the song Be Human sung by Betty Boop accompanying herself on piano. Instrumental renditions of the song are also prominent throughout the cartoon. When the animal-abusing farmer winds up on Grampy's punishment treadmill, a phonograph recording of Grampy's voice is heard singing the song.