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- ↑ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p.165 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
- ↑ "Silent Era: The Showdown". silentera.com. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
