• livus@kbin.social
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      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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        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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          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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        11 months ago

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