One Pair Of Nostrils, Use Your Handkerchief 1944

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Description

Title reads: "One Pair of Nostrils, Use Your Handkerchief".

Ministry of Information Government official.

Cartoon.

Rhyming warning about spreading germs. 'When sneezing use your handkerchief'.

NB: item was originally part of Gazette issue 44/84.

Data

Cataloguer:
Agnew
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
84260
Sort Number:
44/084 (TRAILERS)
Time in/Out:
01:26:40:00 / 01:27:57:00
Canister:
44/84 (TRAILERS)
Film ID:
2919.18
Issue Date:
19/10/1944

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