I used to believe that because some older films and tv programmes were black & white, up to a certain point in time, the whole world was actually black & white and colour was only invented recently. How people managed to colour the sky used to baffle me, but i assumed they must have sprayed deodorant into the air until it turned blue!!
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