Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThe word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down122
arrow-up175arrow-down1message-squareThe word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·11 months agoI’m just glad the term “talkies” didn’t catch on.
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoYou think that’s bad, Lumiere’s father in law wanted him to call the new invention “Domitor” instead of “Cinema”.
minus-squaresrecko@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoOr in alternate reallity: “You think that’s bad, Lumiere wanted to call the new invention “Cinema” before his father in law reasoned with him to call it “Domitor”.”
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months ago@srecko “so strange, imagine if we didn’t have Domitoriums!”
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months ago@Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, “dominator”. He thought it would dominate. They ended up going with the Greek word “kínēma” which means movement, hence movie cameras were “cinematographs” - movement writers. But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :)
I’m just glad the term “talkies” didn’t catch on.
You think that’s bad, Lumiere’s father in law wanted him to call the new invention “Domitor” instead of “Cinema”.
Or in alternate reallity: “You think that’s bad, Lumiere wanted to call the new invention “Cinema” before his father in law reasoned with him to call it “Domitor”.”
@srecko “so strange, imagine if we didn’t have Domitoriums!”
Idk that sounds kinda badass
Why?
@Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, “dominator”. He thought it would dominate.
They ended up going with the Greek word “kínēma” which means movement, hence movie cameras were “cinematographs” - movement writers.
But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :)