When I was a child i used to believe you had to say 'cheese' to any camera type thing including the video camera. So the camera would face to me and I would say cheese for 5 minutes until I ran out of breath.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - I used to believe,there was a little person inside my Dad's box Brownie camera.— Sandra R
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- I used to think that the laugh track on sitcoms were the camera men, directors, other actors, ect. laughing.Anon
- At the time I thought the moon was made of cheese and with oceans of cheese— 123