No-Do

No-Do is the colloquial name for Noticiarios 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 1936–1975 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.^[2]

In their heyday, the No-Do newsreels predictably contained a good deal of propaganda and servile reporting in favour of the Franco regime. 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 dictatorial regime.

The No-Do newsreels, tainted by their indelible association with the dictatorship, fell out of favour within a few years of Spain's return 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]

References

1. "nodo²". Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española (Avance de la vigésima tercera edición). Real Academia Española. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
2. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Spanish official gazette). (1942-12-22). "Boletín Oficial del Estado núm. 356, de 22/12/1942" (PDF). p. 10444. Retrieved 2014-10-20. 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. [http://www.rtve.es/filmoteca/no-do/buscador/?pbq=33&fechaDesde=1/1/1970&fechaHasta=31/12/1979 RTVE Search engine between 1/1/1970 and 31/12/1979 (in Spanish)