
Be Human
- Studio
- Fleischer Studios
- Distributor
- Paramount Studios
Synopsis
An old farmer abuses his animals too much, punching cows, beating up chickens and whipping horses. Catching wind of this, animal hospital nurse Betty makes a phone call to Humane Society officer Grampy to arrest and teach the bullying farmer a lesson in learning to be human to animals. Grampy captures the farmer and invents a whipping machine, where an automated arm holding a whip continually hits the guy as he runs on a treadmill. The treadmill runs the farm through a series of contraptions and pulleys, now making life easier for all the animals that the farmer tortured.
Characters
Betty Boop, Grampy, Old Farmer, Cows, Chickens, Horses
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Dave Fleischer
Producing
- Producer
- Max Fleischer
- Presented By
- Adolph Zukor
Animation
- Animator
- Myron Waldman, Lillian Friedman
Voices
- Voice
- Mae Questel (Betty Boop), Kate Wright (Betty Boop)
Production notes
This short features a series of attacks on animals by a pretty violent fellow. This guy has some serious aggression issues- during the cartoon, he whips a dog that is tied up, punches a cow, and wrings the neck of a live chicken. The man is taken to a rehab facility of sorts, where he is repeatedly whipped for his violence towards animals.



