As a child I thought that black and white movies were black and white because the world was black and white. this, to me, explained why black people were called black people, when all the ones i had seen were actually brown.
i thought this until i was about eleven when i asked my dad if he was excited when color was "invented." at first he assumed I meant just movies, but then i began to ask him things like "how did you know how to pick your favorite ice cream?" actually, he never mentioned it to anybody after he explained. he probably decided that everyone thought i was crazy enough without that.
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