Historic home movies found under house show Australian city nearly a century ago

"Extraordinary" video footage showing life in an Australian city nearly a century ago has been unearthed.

Paul Plowman and his cousin James Paxton discovered the never-before-seen shots of Perth, which were taken by James' father, Roy Paxton, during the 1920s, '30s and '40s.

Most of the film, restored after Plowman it under his grandmother's house, was in near-pristine condition.

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Plowman said what it revealed was "just amazing."

"It's extraordinary. And one of the things I noticed in a lot of the social shots, is the fashion of the time," Plowman said.

"He took a great interest in filming people.

"There's nothing quite like seeing these images of people actually doing things."

The footage shows a family cooling off in the Swan River, having a picnic in the Perth hills and the wedding of Harry and Betty Boan from Boan's department store.

What is thought to be the earliest recorded film of a cricket match at the WACA is also there.

There was still a greyhound track around the oval.

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Apart from life in Perth, Roy and his wife travelled the world and filmed New York and the great cities of Europe.

Paxton said his father was born in Menzies near Kalgoorlie in 1907 and later leased the Esplanade Hotel.

He also filmed the first passenger plane to fly a service in Western Australia.

The WA museum and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia are keen to get their hands on the remarkable collection.

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