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- 1 2 3 4 Chalmers, J.P. (1915). The Moving Picture World. Vol. XXV July-September, 1915. Chalmers Publishing Company. p. 1429.
- ↑ Katz, Ephraim; Klein, Fred Merton; Nolen, Ronald Dean (1998). The Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia. London: Macmillan. p. 405. ISBN 0-333-74037-8.
