My parents told me that if you touched the cinema screen you woukld be electrocuted. This was clearly just a ploy to make me behave at the cinema, but I believed it for years, as no-one ever touched the cinema screen!
A childhood belief about films
others believed things like this
- In childhood, I waited behind the theatre, after the Cinema, hoping to see the artists came out .
— mprnair. - I used to believe that the actors in movies were all acting live behind those big curtains in the cinema.— Courtney
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- I once believed that if you touched hamburger meat, it would explode!— Dipaloe
- After being told by my parents or relatives to "behave," I would usually reply: "I am being have."— Ed