Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoThe word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down118
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareThe word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 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-up3·7 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-up2·7 months ago@srecko “so strange, imagine if we didn’t have Domitoriums!”
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 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. :)
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
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!”
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. :)