You are assuming they were celebrating industrialism? The people in that segment looked like miserable slaves, didn’t appear to be a celebration...
The guy with the cigar sure looked happy...((:))
I did not watch the thing through; but did flip over from time to time, during the evening. The Industrial Revolution part was no more a celebration of historic reality, than the later Health Care coupling with children's literature, was a rational projection.
Frankly, I know nothing of the director, who choreographed the whole mess, but that segment on the Industrialization of Britain was a visual demonstration of Marxist theory--not a tribute to modern Capitalism or British genius. Again, I do not pretend to know anything about the Director--whether he is a Leftist theorist, or simply brainwashed;--but his perspective is hopelessly skewed.
William Flax