A 1943 vision of Modern Britain

[@inotaarto8719]

In my homeland of a unspesified scandinavian country, this was reality for a few decades. Ours is a vast rural country with a handful of old cities. After the wars, a steady move to the cities began but it created this phenomena where the old generation stayed in on their farms and the young would live a dual life of city life and the free time (summer) on the country side working with their familys farmers. Only in the last decades has this tradition started eroding. Im here to restart it though. Im 30ish family man, raising sheep and running a homestead. Not for buisness per say but for my city friends and familiymembers who visit us to help on their free time. I hope we can spread this idea. Its very important for people to have a connection to the land and to where food comes from. Also it makes food and ppl like food. Instead of my friends going on a cruse or abroad they come to our cottages to work and relax for weekends and leave with freah prduce, be it lamb, honey, berries or vegetables. Its nice. God bless you all

[@Taytates-lr6kg]

That's awesome I'd love to live this way much healthier and more rewarding than city life..

[@inotaarto8719]

Im sure it is achievable to some degree. What are your plans?

[@andypandy9013]

My Mum was born in 1930 and was brought up in rural East Yorkshire. In her latter years she lived very near to Boston in Lincolnshire where 'Country Town' is set. Anyway, I *Ahem!* downloaded the original and burned a DVD of it for her. She absolutely loved it and we would often watch it when I visited if there wasn't much on TV. Thank you for bringing this wonderful snapshot of a long gone world to a wider audience. 🙂

[@siskinedge]

This makes me nostalgic from when I was a kid and the government tried to make things better for people, when you'd expect your kids to have a better life than you and buying a house was an achievable aspiration. Hopefully one day those days would be back.

[@daihatsudave6332]

Looking forward to another great video . Great work !!!! Respect from shropshire

[@a1990hussain]

A vision of a nation united in progressing toward its own self-sufficiency. Not a scapegoat in sight. Is this why people used to care about politics?

[@CasparOBrien]

Really fascinating video. This is exactly the kind of informative content I had in mind when I mentioned on the Discord some time ago that today’s government should consider producing documentaries about the countryside.

[@chippysteve4524]

Don't forget that it is a govt propaganda film not a documentary!! I'm sure that Mao and Stalin's films looked equally wholesome and idyllic.

[@CasparOBrien]

@@chippysteve4524 you're right yes but i suggest thats what we need. It has to be honest of course.

[@lksf9820]

It wouldn't work these days, things have changed a lot, people are very different.

[@josemaria1035]

This is how the vibe should be

[@conradsmith2441]

A great old film. Unfortunately, we have strayed way too far from the shore here in my country... cheers from the big bad USA (Maine). Thanks for your effort, we have much to learn from a much older and refined country...

[@floydblandston108]

I love how the local news editor/narrator is the only one speaking in that ludicrous 'RP'. 😄 It's like every city person's view of the world, mediated by visitors from some distant, better, planet.

[@honeybeesforsale]

That was the world I was born into in 1947. The market was still fully functioning until after I left the town at 18. Now it is a car park.

[@paulthompson8467]

Afternoon Ollie nice sheep and a very good video my dad was born in the 40s here in county down and remembers his childhood on the farm very fondly 👍

[@LudvigIndestrucable]

More people ate out at restaurants during the war than in present day, one of the reasons being that municipal restaurants weren't subject to rationing. There was heavy reliance on vegetables as with all wartime cooking, but there was meat and other restricted items. This was allowed by government to encourage community integration.

[@j1mmusj4mmus]

The actor playing the journalist has an interesting accent, sounds sort of north England but Countrytown sounds like it is on the coast in South England.

[@leeboss373]

Looks great, very safe and low crime, good communal spirit. No diversity in sight.

[@CasparOBrien]

Are you suggesting no diversity is a good thing?

[@leeboss373]

@ Yes

[@CasparOBrien]

@@leeboss373 Why do you think this may be? Could you tell me in what ways low/no diversity is better?

[@leeboss373]

@@CasparOBrien I could but it would be easier to point you to Robert Putnam’s study of nearly 30,000 people across America, his 2000 book on declining civic engagement has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.

[@conradsmith2441]

​@@leeboss373Interesting. It's hard to find any one study that tells the whole story, but the one you describe is interesting indeed.

[@LANCSKID]

I certainly did my bit in boosting the population in that town … much in demand and really put myself about, so to speak.

[@keithbelcher9311]

I think this is Boston in Lincolnshire

[@char377]

Government controlled pricing. A terrible idea, as we found out over the last 100 years, and as we are still feeling now with all the government influence on the markets here.

[@georgeniceguy3934]

sheep

[@piotrwojdelko1150]

but someone has to pay for Boris Johnson bus full of money which could fund NHS .Farmers wanted brexit They deserved this.Have you ever tried Argentinian beef ,why I can't buy it here

[@chippysteve4524]

Surprised by how many people seem to have viewed this WARTIME PROPAGANDA FILM as a documentary.No wonder Trump won! ;-/