Jornal Português 19381951

The newsreel series Jornal Português 19381951 was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda SPNSNI by the Portuguese Newsreel Society SPAC under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro It was conceived and employed as part of the propaganda machinery of Salazars regime Screened in cinema theatres prior to the main feature film each issue of Jornal had approximately ten minutes in length and covered a variety of official government acts national political news major sports events and other assorted social and cultural affairs Jornal Português is not only an indispensable document for the history of Estado Novos propaganda but also an unparalleled audiovisual archive of 1940s Portugal