I used to believe that cartoons were made by putting all the drawings in a row, and then moving an ordinary video camera along the row very, very quickly. It was the only way I could see it working.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - i USED To beleive that cartoons were real and i made them my imageniary friends!— Shaman Queen
- i used to believe that the smurfs lived in ordinary mushrooms and i would never eat them!!!— eimear
- The trees moving made the wind blow.— little jimmy
- I used to believe that, by moving their branches from one side to another, trees made wind.— Pilar
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen