The project aims to enhance, in an innovative way, knowledge of the practices of visuality and mobility that have developed, in overlapping cinematic and touristic contexts, in twentieth-century Portugal. Adopting as main primary source the National Archive of the Moving Image (ANIM), a division of the Portuguese Cinémathèque - Museum of Cinema, the research will focus on tourist films, i.e. on films that aim, in a more or less direct way, to promote a region or locality as a travel destiny, or even, in a broader sense, to promote the practice of travelling. The corpus brings together films produced in Portugal between the First Republic and the end of the Estado Novo (1910-1974), giving precedence to under-researched formats like short and medium-length films and nonfiction. The project will intervene theoretically, in an innovative and truly interdisciplinary way, in the following areas and problematics. (1) Tourism studies: by moving away from the concept of "tourist gaze" (Urry 1990) for its abstract and a-historical qualities, so as to propose an alternative concept of tourist gaze that is materialistic, historical and dynamic, deducible from the specific articulations that cohere around a moving image and that are linked both to the cinematic and artistic field and to leisure and mobility practices. (2) Film history: by contributing to the revision of the historiography of Portuguese cinema, traditionally fiction-centred, so as to retrieve formats and genres that have been underestimated or ignored, of which the tourist film is an example. This revision is in keeping with the growing interest in marginal historical sources, as well as recent improvements in archive organisation and access. (3) Film and genre studies: by offering a reconceptualization of the tourist film that emerges from the viewing of several films, and not from a previously-held abstract categorisation, thus hoping to incorporate and positively value the hybridity that characterises a genre ...