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- ↑ Kitchin, Rob; Kneale, James (23 December 2005). Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction. A&C Black. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-8264-7920-4.
- ↑ Beckman, Karen (13 July 2010). Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis. Duke University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8223-9276-7.
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures: Film Beginnings. R. R. Bowker. 1995. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-8108-3021-9.
