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- ↑ Ajax Films at National Film and Sound Archive
- ↑ Anthony Buckley, Behind a Velvet Light Trap, Hardie Grant, 2009 p 104-107
- ↑ ""COLOR ME DEAD": The film that proves Australian knowhow". The Australian Women's Weekly . National Library of Australia. 22 January 1969. p. 8. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
- ↑ "A HOUSEWIFE CLIMBS OUT OF THE RUT". The Australian Women's Weekly . National Library of Australia. 11 June 1969. p. 7. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
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