| Be Human | |
| Director: | Dave Fleischer |
| Animator: | Lillian Friedman Myron Waldman |
| Starring: | Mae Questel (Betty Boop) Everett Clark (Grampy)[1] Gus Wickie (Abusive Farmer) Jack Mercer (Horse, Pig)[2] |
| Music: | Sammy Timberg |
| Producer: | Max Fleischer |
| Studio: | Fleischer Studios |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Country: | United States |
| Color Process: | Black-and-white |
| Runtime: | 6 minutes[3] |
| Language: | English |
Be Human is a 1936 American animated short film starring Betty Boop and Grampy.[4] 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.[5]
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.