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- ↑ Hollis Frampton Collection - Collection - Harvard Film Archive
- ↑ Your Daily Short: Hollis Frampton's "(nostalgia)" - MTV
- ↑ "25 Films Added to National Film Registry - News Releases (Library of Congress)". Loc.gov. 2003-12-16. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ↑ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
- ↑ "Essential Cinema". Anthology Film Archives . Retrieved June 1, 2022.
- ↑ Treasure IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 (Image Entertainment)·Senses of Cinema
- ↑ A Hollis Frampton Odyssey ()-Criterion Collection
