@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoThe word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.message-square45fedilinkarrow-up1102
arrow-up1102message-squareThe word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareCorrodedlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoJust wait for when “walkies” really take off with VR movies
minus-squareRhynoplazlinkfedilink2•2 years agoI see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.
minus-squarelivuslinkfedilink8•2 years agoYou think that’s bad, Lumiere’s father in law wanted him to call the new invention “Domitor” instead of “Cinema”.
minus-squarelivuslinkfedilink7•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. :)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 years 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-squarelivuslinkfedilink2•2 years ago@srecko “so strange, imagine if we didn’t have Domitoriums!”
I’m just glad the term “talkies” didn’t catch on.
Just wait for when “walkies” really take off with VR movies
I see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.
You think that’s bad, Lumiere’s father in law wanted him to call the new invention “Domitor” instead of “Cinema”.
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. :)
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!”