This article discusses the production and circulation forms of the Brazilian discovery theme, through the analysis of the film "Descobrimento do Brasil" (1937) from Humberto Mauro. For that, we explore the way this theme appears in the XIX century, following the historiographic discussions of this epoch. Besides, we examine the construction of an iconography related to this subject, through the production of Victor Meirelles and Oscar Pereira da Silva, among others. The circulation of this theme and its iconographic representation is also debated via the analysis of the panoramas from the beginning of XX century, via the images in the didactic books of this time and via the first productions of the Brazilian cinema. Finally, we try to understand how "Descobrimento do Brasil" dialogues with this production, highlighting the specificity of the film itself as a means of communication.
Cinema; Brazilian Discovery; Painting; Didactic Books