When I was really young, I used to believe that cartoons were shot just like other television shows, just filmed with special cartoon cameras. The actors would wear costumes if they were playing the part of an animal.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I used to believe that cartoons were people dressed up in special costumes.— Sarah-Jane
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- I used to believe that actors were little people that lived inside the television set.Anon
- I used to think that the actors on tv shows sang the show's theme song.Anon
- I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique
- I used to believe that the people who got shot in TV shows where people who wanted to die.Anon