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- ↑ "Obituary: Tom McCreadie". Filmnews . New South Wales, Australia. 1 September 1992. p. 2. Retrieved 24 April 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Films You Will Soon Be Seeing:: Studio Gossip:: Short Story "Into The Straight"—Australian Racing Film". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 5 January 1950. p. 8. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ↑ "Jockeys in the Films". The West Australian . Perth: National Library of Australia. 29 July 1948. p. 18. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ↑ "Background To Turf Story". The West Australian . Perth: National Library of Australia. 1 July 1949. p. 12. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ↑ "PURTELL TO RIDE IN RACE FILM". The Barrier Miner . Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 16 September 1948. p. 8. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 208.
- ↑ Vagg, Stephen (25 August 2019). "Unsung Aussie Actors – Muriel Steinbeck". Filmink.
