I just realized it's called a 'movie' because it moves.

redpill me on this

>>81104341
mo
mō/
noun British informal
noun: mo

a short period of time.
"hang on a mo!"

vie
vī/
verb
verb: vie; 3rd person present: vies; past tense: vied; past participle: vied; gerund or present participle: vying

compete eagerly with someone in order to do or achieve something.

didn't they do a joke about it in korra with varrick

>>81104341
If that was true, they'd be called "movers"

It's actually
"mo" + "vie" (French for life), "mo" is possibly an Indo-European word for "show"
It basically means "to show life"

deepdeep4my

I just realized they call it "flick" because you're supposed to "flick" off the lights when you watch it.

they are called clickies, because the projector makes a clicking sound.

I know why it's called Kino.

>>81104341
They're called talkies, because the characters talk
>Source: That one scene in AHS Hotel where the vampire guy is talking about the origins of his AIDs

>>81104341
I just realized you're called a boring uncreative shitposter because you're a boring uncreative shitposter.

>>81104658
Actually it's because of the flicker of the images past the light bulb in the projector...

>>81104504
I like this a lot.

I thought the term evolved from people calling them "moving pictures"

>>81104984
even still it's just a shorter version of that

Why don't we call pornos fappies?

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It's called film because they film it before showing

>>81104341
>it's called a walkie talkie because you walk and talk with it

oh fug

>>81105240
no because the thing its saved on is called film

like write a paper, cause you wrote stuff on a piece of paper

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Just like NEWS is called NEWS because it's the plural of new aka new stories