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- ↑ "A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PHOTO-PLAY". The Advertiser . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 20 April 1918. p. 12. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 83.
- ↑ "ADELAIDE-MADE PICTURES". The Mail . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 13 April 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
