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- ↑ Evans, Gary (1991). In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989 . University of Toronto Press. pp. 200. ISBN 0-8020-2784-9.
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- ↑ "Death of a Legend". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
