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- ↑ "PRODUCTION OF MOVING PICTURES-- IN AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA". Australian Town and Country Journal . Vol. XCVIII, no. 2555. New South Wales, Australia. 18 December 1918. p. 20. Retrieved 21 November 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Advertising." The Sydney Morning Herald 13 April 1912
- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 34.
- ↑ "OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 10 April 1912. p. 17. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
