''The Artist and the City'' (Portuguese: ''O Pintor e a Cidade'') is a

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

short Portuguese documentary film directed by

Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wo ...

. The film shows a series of watercolor paintings by Portuguese artist António Cruz of what he sees while walking through different parts of the city of Porto. It was the first color film directed by Oliveira. Oliveira considers it forms a trilogy about the Douro and Porto, with ''

Douro, Faina Fluvial ''Douro, Faina Fluvial'' (Labor on the Douro River) is a 1931 Portuguese documentary short film. It was the first film directed by Manoel de Oliveira and is a portrait of his hometown of Porto and the labor and industry that takes place along t ...

'' and '' Aniki-Bóbó''

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* 1956 films Documentary films about painters Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira 1956 short films Portuguese short documentary films 1956 documentary films Documentary films about cities Culture in Porto 1950s short documentary films {{Portugal-film-stub