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- ↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
- ↑ "AMUSEMENT". The Tamworth Daily Observer . NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ↑ "Advertising". The Evening News . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ↑ "Advertising". The Tamworth Daily Observer . NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51
- ↑ "AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN". The Sunday Times . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 16. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ↑ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
- ↑ "Advertising". The Sunday Times . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ↑ "Film News from Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News 11 March 1916, retrieved 23 November 1916
