No-Do is the colloquial name for Noticiario y Documentales1 ("News and Documentaries"), a state-controlled series of cinema newsreels produced in Spain from 1943 to 19811 and closely associated with the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco.2
In their heyday, the No-Do newsreels contained Francoist 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.
After Franco's death, the No-Do newsreels, tainted by their indelible association with the Francoist State, fell out of favour within a few years of the Spanish transition to democracy. 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 library 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
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- "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.
- 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".
- "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.
- RTVE.es (20 December 2012). "RTVE lanza el mayor fondo histórico audiovisual". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 September 2022.