I used to believe that every television program was live - that they were being taped at the same time that people watched them. Videotapes worked the same way; putting the tape into the VCR would send some sort of signal to the actors and cameramen in the studio. The FBI warnings at the beginning of the movie were really there to give them time to get ready before performing~
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- 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
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I thought if someone worked full time it meant they worked 24/7 and never did anything else!— andalite
- I thought the guy who got shot at the beginning of Gunsmoke was replaced every week by a live guy.— Monica
- i used to belive that actors in movie used to really get killed. Until i saw an actor die twice— calipzo avery