I believed as a kid that the TV stations showed a TV program on a projector screen and aimed the camera at it to air to the town.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - I used to think Alsatian dogs were called 'Old Stations'.— Jen
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian
- I used to believe that rocket ran on gasoline and that in order to save gas, we should end the space program.Anon