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- ↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
- ↑ ""ON OUR SELECTION" AT WESTS". The Register . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 15 October 1920. p. 9. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ↑ "PAVILION THEATRE". The Register . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 26 October 1920. p. 9. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- 1 2 3 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 98-99.
- ↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press, 1989 p 57
- ↑ "UNION PICTURE THEATRES". The Sunday Times . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 1 August 1920. p. 22. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- 1 2 The Lone hand, W. McLeod], 1907, retrieved 4 June 2018
- ↑ ""ON OUR SELECTION."". The Register . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 13 October 1920. p. 9. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
