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# Black and white movies again ....
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/black-and-white-movies-again/
- Published: 2008-04-20T20:08:05.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:25:30.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Books

A late Friday afternoon note …..  
I was watching an old episode of *8 simple rules* this morning. Rory had to do a book report on *To Kill a Mocking Bird*. His father got the Gregory Peck movie, but his mother suggested he actually read the book, or read the book **and** watch the movie. I was amused to hear Rory say something along the lines of …

> Forget it. I am not going to read a book **and** watch a black and white movie too.

Luckily, he later came across notes on the book which mean that he could give up reading it 😉  
I was reminded of my own note about ‘black and white’ movies a while ago ….

> I was surprised to discover a while ago that the children had never actually seen a western! We agreed we would look out for one on TV and watch it. The first we saw was in black and white. No way would they watch a movie in black and white 😉 It was soooo old. We never did manage to watch a full one … \[[Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog: Westerns](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001428.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]