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- ↑ East of Borneo:Universal Pictures-Internet Archive
- ↑ Program Notes by Andy Ditzler (2005)
- ↑ Catherine Corman. "Surrealist Astronomy in the South Pacific: Joseph Cornell and the Collaged Eclipse". East of Borneo magazine . Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Essential Cinema". Anthology Film Archives . Retrieved September 12, 2022.
- ↑ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ↑ "Librarian of Congress Names 25 More Films to National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ↑ "How the directors and critics voted: Jim Hoberman". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on June 25, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
- ↑ "Jim Hoberman". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2017.