I thought that cartoon characters were actually real people and that it was some sort of camera trick to change them into cartoon form on the television. So I truely thought that Fred and Wilma Flinstone were just some actors performing in front of a live studio audience.
A childhood belief about cartoons
others believed things like this
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- last time when the television was on i thought the people were performing in it -.-
— irritated kid - I used to believe that actors were little people that lived inside the television set.Anon
- I used to think that the laugh track on sitcoms were the camera men, directors, other actors, ect. laughing.Anon
- I had alligators and cartoon lions under my bed.— ruth