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- ↑ "Film and Photo League Filmography compiled by Russell Campbell and William Alexander". www.ejumpcut.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ↑ Workers Film and Photo League of the W.I.R. (1931), National Hunger March 1931, The – via Internet Archive
