When I was small, I used to think there were people who lived in the tv and performed things. Later, when I understood that the pictures were transmitted from a studio, I thought the actors had to be there to perform things everytime the thing they were in was shown. I thought the people in the adverts must be quite heroic - they had to get pretty tired jumping to every time the adverts came on, after all. Oddly, I think I did understand that videos were just recordings, though.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- my friend thought that the film 'the hulk' was about the jolly green giant from the sweetcorn adverts.— patticus
- i used to beleive that all familys on TV and adverts were real familys.— Lisa-Marie
- I used to believe that actors were little people that lived inside the television set.Anon
- On this site when people sign "Anon" I thought Anon was one person who believed in a lot of weird things...— Slow to catch on.
- when i was little, i thought that a con artist was a person that painted pictures of people commiting crimes— kimkim
- When I was small I thought people were actually inside the TV and that we could take them out.Anon