At the beginning - there was light. And there were many shadows disabling the clear vision of the film phenomenon. The question then, was if the film would be just another "Flea Fair" of some film magician show, some short and forgettable sensation, or something that will bring some new revolution in the human's life? Anyway, the one who really invented the phenomenon called film - was the spirit of the film pioneers. It was the same case in Macedonia, too. The visions of the film pioneers soon became reality and the film institutions appeared. They organized and stimulated the film production. Before the II World War, in Macedonia - that institution was the "Office of Hygiene" from Skopje, the institution that used the power of the film image for educational, noble causes: for educating of the Macedonian people in the fight against poverty, diseases and other (social & health related) problems. But, the Liberation and the end of the II World War marked the real beginning of the institutional film production period in Macedonian cinematography. It's the time of establishing the main film institutions in Macedonia, who will remain, for a long period of time, as the pillars of the cinema in Macedonia in all of its segments: Vardar film, Macedonia Film, Bureau for Cultural and Educational Film, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, City Cinemas, The Cinematheque of Macedonia… In this list, we must mention the Macedonian Television as well, with its huge realized opus gave a great contribution to the forming of our visual conscience. The transition period, although meant dropping the old ways of things in our cinematography, actually brought to the healthier (in potential) bases in Macedonia - for adjusting the cinema issues to the global film "currents". The new private initiatives, the young authors and the alternative ways of financing will, eventually, bring new freshness in the Macedonian cinema context.