I used to believe that all movies were documentaries, real things that had been filmed when they happened. I always marvelled that they had such great camera technology in ancient Egypt, but rode in chariots because they didn't have cars.
A childhood belief about films

others believed things like this
- i used to think technology was "flying cars" and that we would have them by the year 2000.— josieg
- I used to believe that what happened in science fiction/horror is movies was realAnon
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero
- people on soaps didn't know they were being filmed— katherine
- i used to think that my dad got my mom [mummy] from egypt.. when i was like 7— ...
- I used to believe God had a pet tortoise. There was a hymn we sang that went "Great things he hath taught us"— Lozza