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- ↑ "Paper People: a step up". The Globe and Mail , October 7, 1967.
- ↑ "Start on CBC colour feature film". Ottawa Citizen , August 26, 1967.
- ↑ "CBC's Paper People pleases". The Province , December 16, 1967.
- ↑ "The Perfection of Gesture: Timothy Findley and Canadian Theatre". Theatre Research in Canada, Volume 12, Number 1 (Spring 1991).
