My dad watched a lot of re-runs when I was growing up. Andy Griffeth, Ozzy and Harriet, Beaver and stuff like that. So I believed that when my dad was young and pretty much before I was born that the world was black and white. Color was "invented" around the time I came into conciousness.
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