Comment on The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".

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  • srecko@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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”.”

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @srecko "so strange, imagine if we didn't have Domitoriums!"

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  • Pietson@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Idk that sounds kinda badass

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  • Sigmatics@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why?

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨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. :)

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• CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just wait for when “walkies” really take off with VR movies

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.

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