When I was really young, I thought you had to be silent to take a photo - if not, the picture would display the sound for ever; I remember not wanting my mom to play the flute while my dad was about to take a photograph...
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could only play a record once, and after that all the sound was wiped off.Anon
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p
- i used to believe when someone died their image on photo's would disappear— beryl's girl
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- I used to think the Static in the TV where millions of flying bugs stuck wanting to escapeAnon