'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 Lumière brothers with their first film ever made for screening -- Workers Leaving the Lumière 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 filmmaking between 1913 and 1960. From DW Griffith's first hit film in 1913, "In Old California", to James Cameron's film in 2009. New cinema, also known as Cinema Novo, became a cinematic movement that appeared in Brazil in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the late 1950s. The 20th century as a historical, political device and economical. This movement sought to represent a culture while 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 storytelling attributes from classic Hollywood cinema, these two cinemas are different and defined by their primary focus of 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 - The Major Studios, METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, WARNER BROS, 20TH CENTURY-FOX, PARAMOUNT, RKO." -JRank items. Np, and Web. April 27, 2014.Victorino, RC "Film industry and filmmaker resource for film news, reviews, film festivals, interviews and the art of filmmaking." » Can social media help “independent” filmmakers succeed. Np, and Web. April 27, 2014. “What is the third cinema? » Third World Cinema:. Np, and Web. April 27, 2014..Wilkin, Misha. “Classic Hollywood style.” Np, and Web. March-Apr. 2003..Zhakova, Olga. "Reel American History - Films - List." Reel American History - Movies - List. Real American History, nd Web. April 27. 2014.