I remember watching old films on TV when I was young and seeing them in black and white. I didn't know that TV used to only broadcast in black and white, and I came to the conclusion that back in the 40s and 50s, the whole world was in black and white. I had images in my head of world war 2 and everything was in black and white. I remember asking my dad one day what it was like to see colour for the first time, or when colour was invented or something like that, and he had no idea what I meant.
What's even more peculiar is that as a child I went to Sunday school and remember being read bible stories, all of which I imagined in colour. So in my child's brain, I thought that colour was around, and was then forgotten about and invented again sometime in the 60s!
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the whole world was in black and white before colour TV was invented...— Robsa
- I used to believe that before colour TV the world was black and white....— Dougie
- I use to believe that the world was black and white until color was invented for television.Anon
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- I used to believe that old films were in black and white because thats how the world looked then.— JC
- i used to belive that before films were coloured the whole world was black and white— daniel phelps