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- ↑ Notcutt, L.A. and G.C. Latham, The African and the Cinema: An Account of the Work of the Bantu Educational Cinema Experiment during the Period March 1935 to May 1937 (London: Edinburgh House Press, 1937).
- ↑ Colonial Film, Moving Images of the British Empire link to film
- ↑ Colonial Film, Moving Images of the British Empire link to film
- ↑ Colonial Film, Moving Images of the British Empire link to film
