Cannot play iPhone imported Movies in iPhoto 08

Hi there
I dont usually use iPhoto to manage my pictures. However, when doing an iPhoto import of my iPhone pics (is there another way to get the pics off my iPhone by the way) - the pictures appear fine in iPhoto but the videos do not play for some reason. If I do a right click -> Show file -> Open, it fires up Quicktime and plays the video fine. Surely, it should play within iPhoto natively without having to show the file in finder right? If so can anyone help me figure out whats going wrong please?
MacBook Pro (Early 2008)
iPhoto 08 version 7.1.5
OSX Lion 10.7
Quicktime 10.1
Many thanks

Image Capture (in your Applications Folder) will recover material from your phone or camera.
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