Jornal Português (1938-1951)

The story

The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) 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 Salazar's 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 Novo's propaganda, but also an unparalleled audiovisual archive of 1940s Portugal.

Cast & crew

António de Oliveira SalazarSelf (archive footage)

Manoel de OliveiraSelf (archive footage)

AnnabellaSelf (archive footage)

Tyrone PowerSelf (archive footage)

Simone SimonSelf (archive footage)

Jan KiepuraSelf (archive footage)

Mártha EggerthSelf (archive footage)

Robert MontgomerySelf (archive footage)

Laurence OlivierSelf (archive footage)

Vivien LeighSelf (archive footage)

Lilian HarveySelf (archive footage)

Josephine BakerSelf (archive footage)