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- ↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
- ↑ "THE GIRL AND THE BUSHRANGER". The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 – 1957) . Sydney, NSW. 19 May 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 1 July 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Story of g Lost Industry Australia Once Made Films", The bulletin. (Vol. 79 No. 4096 (13 Aug 1958)), nla.obj-702805906, retrieved 7 January 2024– via Trove
- ↑ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
