When I was about seven, my brother told me that our new color tv could not get black and white programs (like old movies) and I believed him.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to think that black and white TV and movies had originally been in color, but had faded with age.
— Beth - I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- I used to believe that before color television, people only saw in black an white.— CD
- I used to think that everything was once in black and white untill they invented color tv.Anon
- I used to believe that the world was actually black and white. (As it is on TV in old movies)— han
- I used to believe that before color television the real world was in black and white. — Chris