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- ↑ "Royal Pictures". Williamstown Chronicle . Vic. 11 November 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2012– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim at National Film and Sound Archive
- ↑ "West's Pictures". The Telegraph (SECOND ed.). Brisbane. 8 November 1911. p. 8. Retrieved 17 May 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- 1 2 "FOR LOVE AND LUCRE". The Sun. No. 401. New South Wales, Australia. 11 October 1911. p. 1 (FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 16 August 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 39
- 1 2 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 26
- ↑ "General News". The Advertiser . Adelaide. 22 September 1911. p. 6. Retrieved 9 April 2012– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "FACING DEATH". The World's News . No. 514. New South Wales, Australia. 21 October 1911. p. 12. Retrieved 16 August 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ The bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880, retrieved 20 April 2019