I used to think that cartoons were real actors dressed up as these crazy characters. And because there were no shadows, I used to imagine that the set was painted just right so that shadows wouldn't appear on the the television screen.
A childhood belief about cartoons
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the shadows on the moon were actually spacemen casting shadows on the ground.— Perry
- I used to believe that realistic looking toys could actually see. But only the shadows of things.— Micah Dunlap
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- I used to believe cartoons where real people. You can imagine how that went... — Emma
- When I was a kid I used to believe that cartoons were people dressed up in special costumes.— Sarah-Jane
- I used to think that at the movie theatres, the actors were just acting behind the screen. — Srushti