I used to think that as movies "got older" they turned to black and white, like the color all faded out with time or something. Before this I thought that "the olden days" were really black and white. Like I asked my dad, "wasn't it boring to live in black & white?"
A childhood belief about films

others believed things like this
- I used to think that black and white TV and movies had originally been in color, but had faded with age.
— Beth - I used to believe that the olden days were black and white when I was about 3 from seing old movies.— Sam
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- I used to think that the old days were actually black and white because of the old black and white pictures.— Leigh Taylor
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM
- I used to believe that the world was actually black and white. (As it is on TV in old movies)— han