Up until I was about 10, I believed that animators drew every single part of a cartoon over and over again, including the backgrounds. I was amazed at how they could draw the scenery exactly the same hundreds of times!
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- When I was little i thought grandparents had to be hundreds of meters tall... Anon
- I used to beleive that if we didn't spray the ants, there would be hundreds of them in my house taking over.— Rob
- I used to believe that the mole on my leg was from when my brother drew on it with a marker.— Lori
- I used to belive that sometimes my grandfather drew the clouds for me. Anon