A British TV director has harnessed the power of talkback radio to find an Australian family who appeared in forgotten footage filmed in the 1960s.
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The video shows a classic scene from suburban Melbourne in 1965: a redbrick house, kids playing in the driveway under the watchful eye of two adults and their older children, flanked by grandma on the garden path.
The owner of the footage, Karen Walsh, was immediately struck by the video.
But she didn't have a clue who the family was.
It was shot by her father, Arthur Howes, who visited Australia in 1965 when he was considering emigrating with his young family.
Mr Howes never took the plunge of permanently relocating, but he returned home from his adventure with moving pictures of Melbourne, Sydney and Perth to show his kids.
Now a TV director in the UK, Ms Walsh recently tackled the task of sorting through her father's old film reels.
The clip of a group of strangers was less than a minute long, but it was too precious for the cutting room floor.
"It is an absolutely charming little piece of video," she said.
