Can't remove video from iPhoto/iMovie'11

Help! I have an old video that shows up everytime I start iMovie'11, and I don't seem to be able to get rid of it. It shows up under the iPhoto video Library, but it doesn't show up at all in iPhoto so I am unable to delete it.
I managed to locate it in the Finder, it seems to have 2 .jpgs associated with it in the iPhoto Library Thumbnails and Preview directories, and two video files: one in the Masters directory and one in the Thumbnails.
Is there any way to delete it without resorting to the deleting these files from the Finder? It's over an hour long so I'd really like to be able to delete it.

Since no one on this discussion forum was able to offer help, I turned to Twitter and received an answer there.
In case anyone else with this problem stumbles upon this thread, I will share the solution that worked for me:
The answer was that the video in question was in the iPhoto Trash. Once I emptied the Trash from the left-hand sidebar in iPhoto, the video was removed from both iPhoto and iMovie.

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