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- ↑ "Advertising". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate . No. 11, 612. New South Wales, Australia. 22 January 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 26 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "C. Lacey Percival Resigns from A.F. Ltd.", Everyones., 5 (311), Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 17 February 1926, nla.obj-574672185, retrieved 25 February 2024– via Trove
- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 32.
- ↑ "Australian Moving Pictures. An Industry Which Has Failed to Grow Up. Some Reminiscences.", Everyones., 6 (357), Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 5 January 1927, nla.obj-576826185, retrieved 26 February 2024– via Trove
- ↑ Bruce Dennett "How Dixie waltzed with Matilda: the influence on Australia of cinematic images of the South". Mississippi Quarterly, The Summer-Fall 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2011
