Best way to import videos only for nested folders?

I have a bunch of nested folders like this
TOP LEVEL
-> Day 1
->->Videos
->->Photos
-> Day 2
->->Videos
->->Photos
Day 69...
Now I can't just choose import on the top level, because I don't want to import any of the photos.
I don't want to click on each individual videos folder because I'm afraid that I will miss one along the way.
What is the most organized way to import this?
Also, would you recommend having all the Days as one big event, or each separate event?
Thanks!

Russ's suggestion is probably the easiest to implement - and if you use external media you won't incur in much hard drive space penalty for it.
If you really want to import just the video and not the audio, here is a small shell script that you may use to replicate the structure of your folders, using symlinks, and omitting the photos file. It assumes only one level down.
You could copy and paste the text below to a file, replacing the two occurences of <path-of-top-folder> with the actual path of that folder, make the file executable and run it in Terminal.
(a similar thing could probably be achieved with a little applescript or perhaps automator, as well)
Note: I tested this in a small example, and it worked for me, but there is no guarantee, of course; but since the script below only creates some folders and symlinks, it is nondestructive, at least. At the end you should have at the same level as the original a "videos-only" folder replicating the structure of the videos using symlinks (no copied media).
Here is the script:

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