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

• 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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