@[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-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!”
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!”