No-Do

No-Do is the colloquial name for Noticiario y Documentales[1] ("News and Documentaries"), a state-controlled series of cinema newsreels produced in Spain from 1943 to 1981[1] and closely associated with the 1939–1975 Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime.[2]

In their heyday, the No-Do newsreels predictably contained a good deal of propaganda and effervescent reporting in favour of the Francoist State. They were a way in which Franco could have a monopoly over the news and supply public information, censorship and propaganda for the formation of public opinion favorable to the Spanish State.

The No-Do newsreels, tainted by their indelible association with the Francoist State, fell out of favour within a few years of Spain's transition to democratic government after Franco's death. The last No-Do was produced in 1981 prior to the operation's absorption into RTVE, Spain's state-controlled television and radio broadcaster. The No-Do archive is an important asset of RTVE and is often mined for nostalgia programmes.[3]

In December 2012, the interactive media of RTVE digitized and launched the complete No-Do on the RTVE website, being able to be accessed for the first time by users around the world and not only by researchers. There are only five lost newsreels.[4]

  1. ^ a b "nodo2". Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española (in Spanish) (23rd ed.). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
  2. ^ Arias-Salgado, Gabriel (22 December 1942). "Disponiendo la proyección obligatoria y exclusiva del Noticiario Cinematográfico Español y concediendo la exclusividad absoluta de reportajes cinematográficos a la entidad editora del mismo, Noticiario y Documentales Cinematográficos "No-Do"" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (356): 10444. Retrieved 20 October 2014. Order for the mandatory and exclusive rights of screening of newsreel film stories in Spain to the publisher News and Documentary Films "NO-DO".
  3. ^ "RTVE y Filmoteca Española ponen a disposición del público 6.753 documentos digitalizados del NO-DO". Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (in Spanish). 2 November 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  4. ^ RTVE.es (20 December 2012). "RTVE lanza el mayor fondo histórico audiovisual". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 September 2022.