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- ↑ "Good-bye . . . he piped full well". The Courier-Mail . Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 17 August 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ↑ Ross Cooper,"Filmography: Beaumont Smith", Cinema Papers, March–April 1976 p333
- ↑ "Advertising". The Barrier Miner . Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 16 May 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- 1 2 3 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 111.
- ↑ "Advertising". Townsville Daily Bulletin . Qld.: National Library of Australia. 24 August 1922. p. 3. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ↑ "The Gentleman Bushranger". The Southern Mail . Vol. 35, no. 1. New South Wales, Australia. 3 January 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 25 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "In Movie Land". The Sun . No. 3538. New South Wales, Australia. 3 March 1922. p. 8. Retrieved 25 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Advertising". Townsville Daily Bulletin . Qld.: National Library of Australia. 24 August 1922. p. 3. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ↑ "The Moving Row of Magic Shadow Shapes". The Sun (Sydney) . New South Wales, Australia. 5 March 1922. p. 20. Retrieved 28 February 2020– via Trove.