Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.message-squaremessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down122
arrow-up184arrow-down1message-squareThe word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year 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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@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. :)