▲ 84 ▼ The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture. (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by Maimas2@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (3 children) You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] srecko@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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"." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago @srecko "so strange, imagine if we didn't have Domitoriums!" permalink fedilink source parent [–] Pietson@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago Idk that sounds kinda badass permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years 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. :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] srecko@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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"." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago @srecko "so strange, imagine if we didn't have Domitoriums!" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago @srecko "so strange, imagine if we didn't have Domitoriums!" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pietson@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago Idk that sounds kinda badass permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years 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. :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years 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. :) permalink fedilink source parent