Films are usually approached from an ideal perspective.Common theory usually hides the conditionsof production of filmmaking. However, if theperspective is changed and films are analyzed as aproduct of a industrial system of production, it ispossible to find the productive apparatus behind ofevery film. Apparatus that articulates school contents,screening venues, film festivals and finallyeven the cinematic form projected on the screen.One of the most important constitutive elementsof cinematic apparatus is cinematographic theoryand more precisely historical theory of cinema. Thisarticle approaches the different levels of history ofcinema as a speech full of ideological biases.