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- ↑ "Documentary inventor is documented". The Globe and Mail , May 30, 1973.
- ↑ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
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