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- ↑ Sidney Peterson, 94, Surrealist Filmmaker-The New York Times
- ↑ Letterboxd
- ↑ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "Avant-Garde Volume 3 - Kino on Video". Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
