NO-DO

Culture

 

No-Do is the abbreviation for Noticiarios y Documentales Cinematográficos (News and Documentaries), and the popular name for the state-controlled cinema newsreels produced in Spain during the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. It was compulsory to show the No-Do newsreels (production of which began in 1943) before the screening of the film, from that year it was not allowed to publish in Spain or in its colonies any documentary film of this kind except the NODO. Although its motto was “ The whole world within all Spaniards reach” the news were focused mainly in domestic issues Inevitably, the No-Do newsreels, were tainted by their indelible association with the dictatorship.

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Politics and propaganda of the political regime

  • A curious speech of Franco in English ”Country, religion and family that is our force”
  • Franco inaugurates a reservoir; his wife, Carmen Polo godmother of a ship
  • Eisenhower is welcomed in Madrid with acclamations.
  • La Sección Femenina (governmental association for women) brings the culture to the villages.
  • The labour union demonstrations in the 1st of May.
  • Fraga and the USA ambassador have a bath in Palomares. (In 1966 he dispelled fears of a nuclear accident at Palomares by swimming in the contaminated water. On January 17, 1966 a B-52 bomber of the USAF Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean sea, off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was completely destroyed; of the four hydrogen bombs that it carried, three were found on land, near the small fishing village of Palomares, Almería, in East Andalusia (Spain). The fourth, which fell into the Mediterranean sea was recovered eighty days later).

Religion and family, the main governmental concerns

  • Franco and his family going to mass.
  • The Virgin of Fatima visits Spain.
  • Franco's favourite granddaughter, Carmencita, during her wedding or after the childbirth

Entertainment

  • Manolete the great bullfighter who travelled around Spain and Mexico to fight 1008 bulls.
  • Estrellita Castro’s dialogue in a film “Spain goes with us, it will always live in our hearts turned into memory, hope and sighs”
  • Marisol sings for the Spanish emigrants in Germany.
  • Farra’s and Di Stefano’s goals.
  • Bahamontes wins the prize of the mountain.

Welcoming famous visitors to promote the country abroad

  • Walt Disney visits Spain and meets Dalí.“El Cordobés ” dedicates a bull to Jackie Kennedy or Ava Gadner fighting a bull with Luis Miguel Dominguín.

 

 

 

Eisenhower and Franco

 

Fraga and the American ambassador in Palomares

 

Estrellita CastroEstre

 

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