Videos lost from iPhoto - still on drive somewhere?

After a computer crash (freeze and hard reboot - wasn't me who did it!), I lost recently transferred videos. The videos had been transferred from my iPhone to iPhoto (then deleted from the phone). The album in iPhoto with the videos still appears in iPhoto, but is now empty. Is there a way to check to see whether the videos are still somewhere on my drive? I was hoping that perhaps they still exist somewhere, albeit somewhere that iPhoto isn't now pointing to.
Many thanks.

The album in iPhoto with the videos still appears in iPhoto, but is now empty.
Album? or Event?
What version of iPhoto?

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