I used to believe that cartoon characters were real creations acting in the TV set, and that non-cartoon images were created by the cartoon characters switching photographs really really fast (except for the Dukes of Hazard who used to hang out in the cramped TV because Minnie Mouse had a crush on them).
Uncanny how I got the idea of cell animation, but just got the application mixed up.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- I had alligators and cartoon lions under my bed.— ruth
- I grew up in NY and used to believe that The Dukes Of Hazard took place during the Civil War.Anon
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- i used to picture jesus as a kind of cartoon Tarzan, swinging through the trees...— bex
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert