When I was very young, I used to think colour had been invented at some point in the 1950's
because everything I had seen from before then was in black & white. Pictures of my mum's family, my grandparents in their youth, films etc...it was a logical conclusion to a 4 year old that everyone walked about in black and white back then.

It was only when I was taken to an art gallery a few weeks later and saw pictures painted in the previous century I finally got some common sense.
( Bamboo Steamer, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 22:31, 7 replies)

You went to an art gallery a few weeks after you were very young?

( user_names_suck, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 23:30, closed)

This is a good thing.
Everyone should be taken to an art gallery a few weeks after they were very young, I think that 3 weeks would be about right.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 23:47, closed)

I have a very young daughter.
So I should take her in February then?
( user_names_suck, Sun 22 Jan 2012, 13:35, closed)

Yes, yes you should.

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 5:50, closed)

Definitely. An ideal time is inbetween the age of being able to focus (6 weeks?) and being able to destroy expensive art-works (12 months-ish, depending on crawl speed & willpower).
(Simian Typewriter Supplies Pty. Ltd. is house hunting in the neighborhood of infinity, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 12:48, closed)

It used to be worse.
For many years, the world was sepia. B&W was an improvement.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 22 Jan 2012, 9:06, closed)

You've been conned
All "Colour pictures from before the 1950s" are actually post-colour interpretations that have been produced in a factory in Latvia.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Sun 22 Jan 2012, 13:16, closed)