Be Human (film)

Be Human is a 1936 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Grampy.[1] It is now in the public domain.

Be Human
Directed byDave Fleischer
Produced byMax Fleischer
StarringMae Questel
Animation byLillian Friedman
Myron Waldman
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 20, 1936 (1936-11-20)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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]

Song

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.

See also

Notes

  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. Hunt, Andrew (August 26, 2010). "Betty Boop & Grampy: Two Pioneering Animal Rights Activists!". Retrieved June 28, 2011. ... Betty Boop and her partner in crime, Grampy, as a couple of Depression-era animal rights activists who relentlessly go after a mean goon of a farmer who's abusing his animals.
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