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- ↑ William Beard and Jerry White, ed. (June 2002). North of Everything: English-Canadian cinema since 1980 . University of Alberta Press. p. 62. ISBN 0-88864-390-X . Retrieved 17 May 2011.
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- ↑ Jayne Pilling, ed. (29 May 2012). "On Craig Welch's How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels". Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-0231161992 . Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ↑ "National Film Board short will be shown with Crash". Ottawa Citizen , October 4, 1996.
