Great video. I wonder how viable a lifestyle like that would be these days? It's a nice day dream from the confines of an office.
It would be viable but it wouldn't have many takers these days.
Different people then; they never had much to begin with (although most had what they really needed) and they'd suffered the privations of a world war, a Depression and then another world war. For people who'd gone through that and survived, bush living, bath in the river in big knickers with hundreds of hives and no PE would have been a doddle. As long as they had a proper china cup for drinking tea out of, naturally.
I don't reckon the boss would get away with chucking rocks at his apprentice these days either - safe systems of work etc.
Watching movies like that from wintry wet miserable Manchester as a kid was what made me want to live in Australia - why even the bees didn't sting! (So I ended up in Tassie).