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References
- ↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p. 51
- ↑ "Poverty Point", The Bulletin, 49 (2547), 5 December 1928, nla.obj-601877135, retrieved 6 January 2024– via Trove
- ↑ "Story of g Lost Industry Australia Once Made Films", The Bulletin, 79 (4096), 13 August 1958, nla.obj-702805906, retrieved 6 January 2024– via Trove
- ↑ Trooper Campbell at AustLit
- ↑ Trooper Campbell (1914) (extensively revised and rewritten from a lecture delivered originally at the Australian Centre for theMoving Image on February 3, 2003.)William D. Rout
- ↑ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896–1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p. 13
- ↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 pp. 35–36
