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- ↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 32-33
- ↑ "Amalgamated Pictures, Limited". The Sunday Times . Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 12 April 1914. p. 2. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
- ↑ Union Picture Theatres (1921), Ten years of progress in the motion picture industry of Australia, Sydney Union Picture Theatres, retrieved 18 October 2016
- ↑ Early history of Australian Film, Screen Australia accessed 24 August 2014