Story posted Friday, January 22, 2010
London Calling
Band Looking For Residents In 1960's Home Movie Used In Music Video
By RICHARD MAYER Assistant Managing Editor
Still image taken from an old Super 8 film spool found in a London junk shop shows Mt. Prospect's familiar blue water tower in the 1960s. Below, a London rock band is attempting to track down local residents shown in a found film reel. Images on the film are being used in a new music video by the band.
Anyone who lived in Mt. Prospect in the 1960s, who may have lost or given away reels of their home movies, might find themselves in a new music video by a band from London.
The British rock band "My Luminaries" is looking for the people who made those home movies so they can return the films and trace their story.
Approximately three months ago, the video's director, Peter Middleton, found the Super 8 film spools in a junk shop in London and decided the family scenes they showed would make for a unique video for the band's song "Welcome To The Family". The video can be seen on the website YouTube.
Mt. Prospect was identified as the original site of the old films by scenes of the familiar blue water tower on Northwest Hwy. The search is now on to discover who people in the video are.
"The approximately three minute video contains a few generations, including kids, a couple getting married, and a grandmother," said Peter Emina, record label manager of Life Is So Cruel, after the Journal was contacted by the band via e-mail this week. "We want to know what happened to those people after that video."
Emina said the track with the home movies, which show families sitting around at an outdoor barbecue and children playing in the street, has been released in Japan and will make its debut in London soon. At this time, he is not sure when the song will be released in the United States.
Emina said he has been to Chicago a few times but never Mt. Prospect.
If anyone recognizes the faces in the video they should contact the Journal, the band or the record label through the label's links.
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