When I watched PBS programs, there was always a long pause between the programs. I remembered watching my teacher rewind the movie reels in class, and stick another film on the projector. I imagined that was what was happening at the studio during those long pauses...the people in the studio were re-winding the movie, and sticking a new one on. Now that I am a broadcast technician by trade...I know what I thought was actually occuring...because TV programs back when I was growing up actually did come off of movie reels. Nowadays though, they come off of videotape. I also thought if you held a piece of videotape up to a bright enough light, you could see the pictures on it, just like on a piece of movie film
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that in order to rewind a film the actors would have to re-act the whole movie backwards. — movies backward
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- I used to think that when a movie was 'based on a true story' it was happening for real then and there— Tom
- I used to believe that the credits at the end of a movie was a list of people in that were watching it.— jon_
- I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander