RTVE and Filmoteca Española make the complete NO-DO archive available to the public for the first time

Any user will now be able to access these important collections made up of 6,573 documents and 1,719 hours of video through the RTVE website. In addition, the website hosts films, short films and documentaries for which the Spanish Film Library has the property rights.

The Spanish Filmoteca Page on the website of RTVE is renewed with new content, making more than 1,700 hours of content available to the public from now on. This will mean access to the complete NO-DO archive, which makes this page the gateway to the largest audiovisual collection of historical images in Spanish.

To the 4,011 newscasts already published in 2013, a total of 2,562 new contents are now added, divided into newscasts (4,011 videos representing a total of 670 hours), Imagens Magazine (1,211 videos with 204 hours), sports images (88 videos with 15 hours), B/W documentaries (217 videos with almost 67 hours), color documentaries (487 videos with 127 hours), historical archive (488 videos with 96 hours) and royal archive corresponding to Alfonso XIII (71 videos with 13 hours).

In addition to the complete NO-DO archive, the Spanish Film Archive on RTVE is definitively divided into four sections: NO-DO (with its different sections), films (such as the first Spanish sound film, The Mystery of the Puerta del Sol, for example), short films (among other very interesting ones you can see the version restored by Filmoteca Española of the Andalusian Dog, directed by Luis Buñuel) and documentaries (such as the series The Filmed War o The Speaker or the hand of Gómez de la Serna).

The last three sections, films, short films and documentaries, will be completed in the coming months with new content from the collections to which the Spanish Film Archive has the property rights.

It is expected that by the end of this year there will be more than 530,000 visitors to this website, doubling the figures from the previous year and reaching two million pages consulted.

File Digitization

RTVE and Filmoteca Española have maintained a collaboration framework since 1982 that has served to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences between both institutions. Thus, the RTVE Film Library website houses the two most important audiovisual archives in Spain, both in quantity and diversity of content.

Therefore, a line of work opened in 2012 continues with the digitization and making available to the public of the documentary collections of RTVE and Filmoteca Española, an action that has been highlighted by the European Commission as an example of “good practices” in the dissemination of film heritage.