Can't edit old project with upgrade

I created a project in an older version of imovie (not sure which, it was 2001), now I have upgraded, and am trying to open this project, it appears in the upgrade, but I am having trouble editing a few clips, all I want to do it change the words, but the clips don't show up on the side panel. Can anyone help me. Thanks so much!

Let me rephrase my question, so hard to explain, I have a clip with some text in it (in main window, still dont see orginal clip with your suggestion) , when I am on that clip and go to Text, the text doesn't show up, it allows me to add new text but not change what already exists, it seems like it's in a deeper layer or something. It worked in a previous clip and showed up and I changed text there, but can't here for some reason. Does that make any sense?
Thanks for your help.

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