My videos in iPhoto no longer play ... the message reads OSStatus error -54.

I originally shot these videos of my deceased mother when I had a Power Mac Pro G4 with Snow Leopard, so I'm assuming power pc stuff is no longer supported in Mavericks.
How can I restore these archival videos ?

One reason why videos don't play  might be a missing cached file.
With MacOSX Mavericks and  Mt. Lion it helped to rebuild the cache using a Terminal command:
Try this fix posted by andyBall_UK
Open a Terminal window (the Terminal.app is in Applications > Utilities)
Copy and paste the line below into the Terminal window, hit return  and enter your administrator password.
sudo /usr/libexec/xpchelper --rebuild-cache
If you do not want to use a Terminal command you can achieve the same thing by booting into recovery and reinstalling the system on top of your current system - don't wipe the drive again. OS X: About OS X Recovery

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