See anyone familiar in British band's latest video?

Mount Prospect residents from the 1960s could be the stars of a new rock video.

My Luminaries, a British alternative rock band, recently completed a video for its track "Welcome to the Family." The video includes grainy home-movie footage that appears to date from the 1960s and include one or more families from Mount Prospect.

Now, the band wants to see if it can find relatives of the people pictured in the movies, or maybe even the people themselves.

"Tracking down these people seemed important," Peter Emina, co-owner of the band's label, London-based Life is So Cruel, said via e-mail. "When we watch the video we get a few seconds of their lives captured and we make our own assumptions about their lives ... but are we right? What happened to them after the camera turned off?"

The video is essentially a montage of home-movie footage showing a series of mundane, but happy, moments: A mom plays with her toddler, a man and woman get married, a family sits down to a backyard picnic. The clue to the origin of the movies is a shot of the Mount Prospect water tower.

Peter Middleton, the director of the video, found the home movies in a London junk shop. The nostalgic, family-oriented images on the spools of 8-mm film struck a chord with him, although he has no idea how they wound up in London.

"Eight-millimeter has an amazing ephemeral quality, and there was something beautiful about these scenes of everyday life, the memories of some anonymous family, rendered by the process of filming," Middleton said via e-mail.

If the families are found, Middleton will provide them with the films or DVD copies of them, Emina said.

The video can be seen at www.myspace.com/myluminaries. Anyone who recognizes the footage can contact Emina at peter@lifeissocruel.com.