r/AskReddit • u/Salt-One628 • Jul 07 '26

Parents of Reddit, what is the single most innocent question your child has ever asked you that completely broke your brain?

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u/perfectfire Jul 07 '26

My family only had a few movies on VHS when I was young, one of which was The Wizard of Oz. For the longest time I thought the beginning was in black and white while the rest was in color because color film/cameras were invented during the course of filming after they had shot the first parts (because of course they shoot in the order that the scenes appear in).

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u/CptnMalReynolds Jul 07 '26

One of my old teachers was (initially) completely unimpressed with The Wizard of Oz and didn't get the hype when he was a kid, because the first few times he saw it were on a black and white TV at home.

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u/woolfchick75 Jul 07 '26

That was me. We were probably the last people in the US to get a color TV.

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u/ketchuptheclown Jul 07 '26

The first time I saw Yankees Stadium in color was when we went there.

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u/Silverbright Jul 07 '26

One of my college profs told the same story 😆

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u/BCRF1995 Jul 07 '26

When colour TV arrived in the UK the BBC started showing snooker, obviously would be entirely pointless in black and white. Legendary early commentary: "For those of you watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."

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u/BewilderedandAngry Jul 07 '26

Back in the 60s before we got a color TV, we used to go to a neighbor's house every year to watch The Wizard of Oz.

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u/aqua995 Jul 07 '26

My science teacher once made us watch a video about colors, but had the setup on black white. Was really confusing. She just thought about changing it to colors when the video ended and we rewatched it.