I thought that in cinemas, all the dust particles that you could see lit up in the beam of light from the projector were actually thousands of little pieces of the film travelling to the screen to make the picture!
A childhood belief about films

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- I used to believe that an animated film meant that the film had live animals in it.— reverb
- I thought that a travel visa was a special credit card which was used for travellingAnon
- I thought that a "student visa" meant to use a credit card while travelling.Anon
- i used to think that moths were travelling to different worlds when they circled the lights— Amanda