'12 Years a Slave, award-winning director Steve McQueen associates filmmaking with "writing a novel – you're telling a story." This message is powerful and defines the true purpose of cinema, which is to “tell a story.” (Victorino) Hollywood capitalized on the aspect of visual storytelling first introduced in 1985 by the Lumiere brothers with their first film ever made for screening - Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory. They (Hollywood), then designed a studio system called Classic Hollywood Cinema to finance, organize, produce, market, distribute and exhibit films for profit while entertaining moviegoers. This term was coined by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson to define Hollywood film production in the period from 1913 to 1960. From DW Griffith's first successful film ever made in Hollywood in 1913, "In Old California", to James Cameron's 2009 film Avatar which grossed over 760 million at the box office, this process continues to be effective and continues to live on today. New Cinema, however, also known as Cinema Novo, became a cinematic movement that appeared in Brazil in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the late 20th century to be used as a historical, political and economic device. This movement sought to represent a culture by shedding new light on a national cinema that contributed to a new multinational aesthetic; thus countering the utopian idea of ​​Brazil by suggesting that the country's historical, social, political and economic ills were still very evident. Although Cinema Novo borrowed some attributes from the storytelling of classic Hollywood cinema, these two cinemas are different and are defined by their broader purpose: visual storytelling. Classic Hollywood......middle of paper......6, nd Web. April 27, 2014.SMH.com, March 26, 2014"The Hollywood Studio System in 1940-1941 - Major Studios, METRO- GOLDWYN-MAYER, WARNER BROS, 20TH CENTURY-FOX, PARAMOUNT, RKO." - JRank Articles. Np, nd Web. April 27, 2014. Victorino, RC "Film industry and filmmaker resources for news, reviews, film festivals, interviews, and the art of filmmaking." Can social media help "indie" filmmakers make it big? Np, nd Web. April 27, 2014."What is the third cinema?" Third (world) cinema:. Np, nd Web. April 27, 2014..Wilkin, Misha. "Classic Hollywood style." Np, nd Web. Mar.-Apr. 2003..Zhakova, Olga. "Reel American History - Movies - List." Reel American History - Film - List.Real American History, nd Web. April 27. 2014.