My contribution to the recent Pendog update! I wrote and storyboarded this Beetrice PSA and @sushicatz textured the thumbnails I made and put it all together in a video. (These are just thumbnails, not completed boards!)
The short was loosely based on a real anti-union PSA from 1958 called "And Women Shall Weep" which borrowed, exaggerated and straight-up lied about real-world events tied to a labour movement in Princeton, Indiana. (Here's a link to an interesting article about this). In response, the International Association of Machinists released their own film, "Anatomy of a Lie", which refutes just about every claim "And Women Shall Weep" makes.
Certain shots from the union meeting scene I borrowed directly from the short. The rest is all stuff taken from old anti-union posters and advertisements which often exaggerated things like the cost of dues. (In reality, most unions will offer financial aide to anyone who's struggling to pay, and needless to say there's no such thing as 'goons') Let the records show I am a member of the Canadian Animation Guild myself!
Don't listen to Beetrice!
