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- ↑ WEA Autumn Program 1962.
- ↑ Lecture : The Art of Cinema. Sydney Cinema Society . Program Notes One, First Half , 1964 p. 25.
- ↑ Men with guns : an examination of gangster and western films", held at Newport, on 26–28 February 1965 with speakers, Ian McPherson and John Flaus."
- ↑ Film Digest November/December 1966 WEA Film Study Group.
- ↑ Insert in Sydney University Film Group Bulletin. June 1965.
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- ↑ Sydney University Film Group Bulletin. Term 3 1973 p.2.
- ↑ David Stratton The last new wave : the Australian film revival Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1980
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- ↑ French film noir by Tom Politis Sydney : W.E.A. Film Study Group, 1978.
- ↑ Stanley Hawes, documentary film-maker by Valda Lyle, Tom Politis, Ross Stell. Sydney : WEA Film Study Group, 1980.