the past

I used to believe that the lady in a long white dress and blue sash holding a flame in her hand ...( I think it's Columbia Pictures.. please tell me if I am wrong).. any way I thought she was the Queen of England

when I was little whilst watching the news with my parents I often used to get really confused when 'guerrilla warfare' was ever mentioned as I couldn't understand a) why gorillas were so angry, and b) where they got guns from. therefore, I used to think these wars always went on in jungles with these big king-kongesq gorillas beating up humans.

I read a lot of encyclopedias and pop history books when I was in elementary school. My reading skills must have been a bit off because I took references to "Stone Age Tribes" in these books the literal truth and that the Stone Age was out there somewhere today.

I also misunderstood stories about human sacrifices and the eruption of Vesuvius and thought that somehow there was a way to revisit these events every day.

Like many people - I believed that things in the past were all in Black and White and that Colour was a recent invention (coinciding with the invention of the colour tv - naturally). I remember watching a school program one day and it was a recreation of a typical 40s/50s small northen (england) town and family... and it was in colour!! I was sooo confused (I remember thinking "this is so wrong, they've put colour into it!").. then I realised... luckily I never said anything at the time :D

When I was growing up, all the home movies were black and white and all good theatre movies were black and white. I thought that before the 1950's everyone was black and white

I used to believe…

that every thing was in black/whit in the old days , and i never would grown up and my mum always was gonna be the same age , but i cried when i founded out that i had failed, because then i understand that my mom would die a day

I used to be convinced that the world was about to end in a nuclear war. I used to make my mum and dad kiss my hand every night before I went to bed so that I would still have their last kiss on me when I died.

I used to believe that the early days of the twentieth century actually were in black and white--because the photos were! I also used to believe that if you turned on an antique radio, you would hear music from that era.

When i was a little chris, whenever i saw a swastika in historical films, i thought it was the number 45,and i wondered why they had a 45 on their flag.

I used to believe up until about the age of 10 that in the past the world was in black and white, because of black and white films.

When I was much smaller, I would look at old pictures that my parents had around the house (the ones with "sepia" tones). I used to think that's what the world looked like back in the old days. How boring!

This isnt my belief but on a bus trip I one convinced two children I know that the world used to be black and white and that is why old movies arent in colour. They asked their grandmother to confirm it and she told them that only trees were in colour.

My parents are both big fans of classic movies. Naturally as a child I watched them, too, but I couldn't figure out why they were all in black and white. My dad explained that they made all those movies (and TV shows) before they invented color.

Seemed reasonable to me, so I told all my friends. We also thought that's where the racial terms "black" and "white" came from. Oh, and "B.C" (as in 400 B.C.) meant "Before Color".

Oh, the embarassment when I discovered the truth...

I used to look at black and white pictures of my parents when they were young and I would also watch old black and white tv shows....I was convinced that the entire world simply wasn't in color back then.

When I was a child I believed that back in the time when they had black and white photos that the world was black and white.

I used to believe…

since i only ever saw black and white pictures of the early 20th century, I thought that everything really was black and white until 'color was invented'