For years, the NO-DO newsreels showed Francisco Franco catching enormous fish in various rivers with a skill the commentator never tired of praising. Half the world already suspected it was staged, but there was no way of knowing, because the ‘documentary newsreel’ was one of the regime’s finest inventions for its own propaganda. El cine de Paco is a stroll through the most grotesque images of NO-DO, to which material never shown publicly has been added, revealing the subtlety of the regime’s censorship and manipulation.
