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- ↑ Artist — CA'TOGA
- ↑ BFI
- ↑ Festival de Cannes
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- ↑ Oddball Films: Learn your Lesson from the '60s - A Groovy Shockucation - Fri. Nov. 20th - 8PM
- ↑ Oddball Films: Animazione Demente - The Psychedelic World of Italian Cartoons - Thur. Mar. 3rd - 8PM
- ↑ Short Film Winners: 1967 Oscars
- ↑ "The Drag". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
- ↑ Begoray, Deborah L. (28 February 2003). "Best of the Best: Romantic Tales and Other Whimsical Relationships". Canadian Materials. Manitoba Library Association.
- ↑ 1967|Oscars.org