The face mask comes of age in this intriguing wartime guide to germ prevention.

Learn how to make a germ mask, 1940s-style! Whether it's glamour or practicality you're after, this short instructional film - made in support of the wartime government's 'coughs and sneezes spread diseases' campaign - will tell you how. Scientifically proven to be effective against all forms of 'direct projectile infection', our advice is to go out and get one now!

Ministry of Information short dealing with the loss of working time through the common cold and instruction on how to make a protective face-mask from different materials.