When I was a young teen in the late 40's, tv was a new thing to most households. While watching an old Western shoot-em-up, I asked my mom how they got someone to take the pictures when electricity hadn't been invented yet. I didn't realize they were actors on a set in more modern times.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- i used to think before clocks were invented, there was no such thing as time— nathan t
- When I was young I had a plan to shoot big piles of paper up to the sun so it would never burn out.— Waterbottle
- I used to think that if you didn't have a birth mark you hadn't been born.— Kim
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- I used to believe that everyone in pictures could see me so i turned all of the pictures in my house backwardsAnon
- in kindergarden i beleived that to be a teenager your name had to end with teen— eric