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- ↑ "In the Mirror of Maya Deren" (PDF). Zeitgeist Films. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 6, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ↑ DVD “Maya Deren: Experimental Films”, Mystic Fire Video 2002
- ↑ "Private Life of a Cat". 1947.
- ↑ Michael Lawrence and Laura McMahon, ed. (2015). Animal Life and the Moving Image. British Film Institute. pp. 48–49. ISBN 9781844579020.
- ↑ "The Private Life of a Cat".
- ↑ "The Best Experimental Film About Cats Ever Made - The Atlantic". www.theatlantic.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-24.
