Colds To Order (1947)

Item title reads - Colds to Order. People take part in Government experiment to find out more about the common cold. Harvard Hospital near Salisbury, Wiltshire. A Ford station wagon draws up outside Harvard Hospital and the passengers get out. M/S Harvard Hospital sign. They are greeted by nursing staff. Two girls enter room and take off their coats. One switches on the wireless but it doesn’t work. The other girl telephones for an engineer. M/S of girl having drops put up her nose. M/S as food supplies are left outside the girls’ door. M/S as they eat breakfast, one girl sneezes and coughs then the other starts. M/S as an engineer puts on a silly looking protective blanket with clear hood and enters to fix the radio. C/U dartboard on wall, the girls play a match. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT