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{{Short description|Spanish state-controlled newsreel (1943–1981)}}
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'''No-Do''' is the [[colloquialism|colloquial]] name for '''Noticiario y Documentales'''<ref name="rae">{{cite dictionary |url=http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltObtenerHtml?origen=RAE&IDLEMA=87648&NEDIC=Si |title=nodo<sup>2</sup> |dictionary=[[Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española]] |edition=23rd |publisher=[[Real Academia Española]] |access-date=10 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609021656/http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltObtenerHtml?origen=RAE&IDLEMA=87648&NEDIC=Si |archive-date=9 June 2011 |language=es}}</ref> ("News and Documentaries"), a state-controlled series of cinema [[newsreel]]s [[Spanish cinema|produced in Spain]] from 1943 to 1981<ref name="rae"/> and closely associated with the dictatorial regime of [[Francisco Franco]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1942/356/A10444-10444.pdf |journal=[[Boletín Oficial del Estado]] |issue=356 |date=22 December 1942 |access-date=20 October 2014 |page=10444 |title=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". |first=Gabriel |last=Arias-Salgado |author-link=Gabriel Arias-Salgado |quote=Order for  the mandatory and exclusive rights of screening of newsreel film stories in Spain to the publisher  News and Documentary Films "NO-DO". |language=es}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20151102/rtve-filmoteca-espanola-ponen-disposicion-del-publico-6753-documentos-digitalizados-del-no-do/1246322.shtml |title=RTVE y Filmoteca Española ponen a disposición del público 6.753 documentos digitalizados del NO-DO |date=2 November 2015 |access-date=13 June 2019 |work=[[Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española]] |language=es}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=RTVE.es |date=2012-12-20 |title=RTVE lanza el mayor fondo histórico audiovisual |url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20121220/archivo-filmoteca-no-do-mayor-fondo-historico-audiovisual/590521.shtml |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=RTVE.es |language=es}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Propaganda in Spain]]
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official|https://www.rtve.es/filmoteca/no-do/}}

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[[Category:1943 establishments in Spain]]
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[[Category:Film organisations in Spain]]
[[Category:Francoist mass media]]
[[Category:Newsreels]]
[[Category:Propaganda film units]]
[[Category:State-owned film companies]]
[[Category:Spanish documentary films]]
[[Category:Propaganda in Spain]]


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