When I was very young I watched a fair amount of black and white TV shows in the 1980s. (I had a fondness for Car 54 and Dennis the Menace on Nickelodeon). I somehow came to believe that television was always recorded in color ad that the whole world used to be black and white.
Apparently I had gotten the idea from a Dennis the Menace comic (I used to read it everyday, but Sundays inparticular). In one comic Dennis asked his father why TV was in black and white and his father tells him that the whole world was black and white. I was too young to realize this was the joke of the comic.
Still that would be interesting now wouldn't it? :-)
A childhood belief about history
you weren't the only one
564 of you believed this
- After I saw the Wizard of Oz, I was under the impression Kansas was black and white.Anon
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- after watching "the wizard of oz" i thought kansas was black and white and the rest of the world was color!— kelly
- I use to think polka dot was a color.Anon
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern
- I used to believe that my grandparents' world was in black and white.— Sara Serés