How did the word "movie" originated?!
Question: can anyone please tell me the history of movies? the actual word -movie-.
Answers: can anyone please tell me the history of movies? the actual word -movie-.
its short for motion picture
just like "talkie" is short for a talking picture before there were movies
i guess it was slang for moving picture.
It comes from the phrase "moving pictures", like how "talkie" came from "talking pictures".
The first thing resembling films were known as "Magic Lantern Shows," which would seem pretty tame now because they amounted to projecting slides to accompany a lecture; when a projected image was something new and startling, a traveling Magic Lantern show could easily fill a local theater, church, or school, on short notice, with no advertising other than word of mouth.
About the time the general public had grown bored with Magic Lantern shows, Thomas Edison introduced the "kinetoscope" which was a device only one person at a time could use to view about a minute of silent film. The portmantu word kinetoscope didn't catch on, but "peek show" parlors did (so called because the viewer had to peer, or peek, through a scope to see the moving images). Peek show parlor owners quickly learned that people wouldn't pay to see films they had seen before but would pay to see films they hadn't seen.
Two French brothers were the first to show an exhibit of "moving pictures from real life," but in America Edison filed a patent, which was granted, for a motion picture projector. Edison also produced early primative films, which were shown by traveling showmen initially. "Moving Pictures" was soon truncated down to "movie," although "flickers," and "flicks" were other words used to describe the films that were soon displayed across the United States in "Nickelodeon" theaters (so named because admission was usually a nickle). By the time that movies had proven they weren't just a passing fad and were starting to tell stories, instead of just showing famous sights, or marching bands, or recreated boxing matches, or other plotless situations, the words flickers and flicks had been retired and most everyone in North America knew that it was easier to say movie than it was to say moving pictures.
Jo above had it Right. It's 1920s slang for Moving Picture, and it just stuck.
i think it was because before movies they had cave paintings or some sh*t. Then they got a smart idea to string a whole bunch of pictures together. in the beginning it was lame cos the only sound was a dumba$$ piano but then they fiured out how to put sound onto it. Now we a plagued to watch 100 movies before we find a good one because dumba$$ people invented YouTube and sh*t like that so people think that they can express themselves. Tell you what in the last year i've expressed myself on plenty of their creativity.