When I was little I used to watch Captain Kangaroo and my favorite part was when they had the artist on. They had a TV trick where he would take a paint brush and run it across the paper and it would "paint" a real life scene on the paper. I remember asking my Mom to buy me a paint brush like that and I got really upset when she told me it was only a TV trick. But of course I didn't believe her, I mean why would the good ole' Captain use tricks? ;)
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- I used to believe when i was about 4 (now 15) that dinosours died because they didn't brush their teeth— gullable
- I used to think that cockroaches would visit your house if you didn't brush your teeth.Anon