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References
- ↑ "The Melbourne Cup". The Advertiser . Vol. XLVII, no. 14, 366. South Australia. 2 November 1904. p. 10. Retrieved 9 February 2021– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "A Maker of Films". The Barrier Miner . Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 20 March 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ↑ Rutledge, Martha (1979). "Barrett, Walter Franklyn". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ "letter to Franklyn Barrett from H. Byron Moore". Australia: National Film and Sound Archive. 29 September 1904. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
