Franco, NO-DO y las conquistas del trabajo

• Autores: Vicente José Benet Ferrando
• Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 42-43, 2, 2002 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Materiales para una iconografía de Francisco Franco), págs. 30-51
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Franco, the NO-DO, and the conquest of the worker
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  • Images of workers go hand in hand with the iconographic propaganda of European dictatorships in the first half of the twentieth century. As happens with imagery of athletes or soldiers, the worker is postulated as the basic source of energy and force that sustain the State. Franco also used this imagery in an allegorical sense during the early years of his regime. However, after the 1950s, Franco himself embodied the allegorical portrayal of the worker as he downplayed his image as military Caudillo. In his many public appearances in the official State news documentaries called NO-DOs, where he inaugurates dams, technological centers, or large enterprises, we can see this trend. Franco would gradually become the main impulse behind developing sources of energy that would allow economic progress.