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I'm just glad the term "talkies" didn't catch on.
You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".
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. :)