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 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