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.
António de Oliveira Salazar
Manoel de Oliveira
Annabella
Tyrone Power
Simone Simon
Jan Kiepura
Mártha Eggerth
Robert Montgomery
Laurence Olivier
Vivien Leigh
Lilian Harvey
Josephine Baker
Eva Duarte de Perón
Francisco Franco
António Óscar Fragoso Carmona