I knew that films were made by joining lots of static photos together, and therefore assumed that they made films by taking a photo, moving the actors, taking another photo...
I wondered how they made films of sporting events and assumed they re-created them after the event.
A childhood belief about films

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that old films were in black and white because thats how the world looked then.— JC
- I thought an Automatic car drove itself, like Herbie in the Disney films— Stano
- I thought live-action films were very, very well-drawn cartoons.Anon
- i used to belive that before films were coloured the whole world was black and white— daniel phelps
- i used to believe when someone died their image on photo's would disappear— beryl's girl
- I used to think that when people were taking their contacts out that they were taking their eyeball out :) — Jen