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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.
- ↑ Franklyn Barrett papers at National Film and Sound Archive
- ↑ "Advertising". The Advertiser . Adelaide. 8 September 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 21 April 2012– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 39
- ↑ "MONARCH PICTURES". The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate . NSW. 20 January 1914. p. 2. Retrieved 21 April 2012– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Graham Shirley & Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Angus and Robertson, 1989 p 59
- ↑ "AT POVERTY POINT.", The bulletin., Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 10 July 1913, nla.obj-685913811, retrieved 1 May 2024– via Trove
