When i was about 6 or 7 in the 70's, my dad was a TV engineer so we were the first on our street to get a video recorder(old clunky V2000 if anyone remembers them). The instructional video for recording in advance showed a hand coming out of the VCR and pressing the 'record' button. Dad told me this was real but only worked if you were out of the house and being a gullible kid unused to technology i believed him! I used to set the video, go out and try and sneak a peek through the window to spot the phantom hand!
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I used to believe that the video clip are realized in one time and the singers are singing with to the music Anon
- I watched a Michael Jackson music video with my brother, and we were convinced he was a woman.— Adrian