In 1969 when I was six, my class were taken into the the class next door to watch the first moon walk LIVE on our new school tv. I did understand the concept of "live", as in happening right now, but I live in England, as then, and really believed, with childlike disgust, that our teachers were lying to us about this broadcast being "live" because how can you have live coverage of the moon, (only available at night) when it was a bright sunny day just before lunchtime? For years I believed this was really a recording that I saw, until in 1999 I watched a 30th anniversary programme about it when they gave out the time this happened in the UK. Then it all came flooding back to me and I realised that I had actually witnessed a live event. I felt humbled, you know and then I laughed and laughed. My own children thought I was truly stupid.
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that teachers would live at school and sleep under there desks :) lol— Stephanie
- I used to believe you could live down the back of the sofa...— Big Pete
- when i was 5 i used to think that people only live for 10 years and i thought that my parents were 7.Anon
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- I used to believe that santa came to your house at a different time depending on where you live.
— santa 1:00 am - i thought that all of the shows on tv where played live even when someone died. sad, i no.Anon