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- ↑ "Ottawa Animation Festival – and "Grampy's Indoor Outing" (1936)". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ↑ "Fleischer Promo Art #16: "Betty Slays 'Em!"". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.