"Delete Keyword" reports nonexistent photos

iPhoto 7.1.1 ('08). Cmd-K, select Edit Keywords, select Movie, hit Minus to delete. iPhoto says 4 photos will have the keyword removed. That's strange, I don't know of any Movie photos. So I did a Search for keyword Movie: zero. I did a Smart Album of Keyword Is Movie: zero. (For what it's worth, I have no hidden photos anywhere in my library.)
I exited iPhoto, restarted with Cmd-Option, rebuilt library with every possible thing checked off. Still get the mismatch in quantity of Movie keywords between Delete and Search/Smart.
So why does Delete Keyword think there are 4 Movie keywords when there are none? or alternatively, if there really are 4 such photos, how do I find them?

Thanks for the reply, Terence Devlin. I'm still not sure what it all means.
When you import a Movie, the keyword is applied to it automatically.
Understood. In the past, I have imported a movie or two by mistake (occasionally I accidentally bump the control on my camera that puts it into movie mode). But I deleted those movies; or at least, all the ones I could find.
The photos referred to may simply be a typo referring to the Movies themselves.
I'm sorry, I am not able to figure out what you mean by this sentence. Perhaps you could try rephrasing it? "Typo" means a mistake in data entry (a mistyping) but there was no data entry involved here (I never manually assigned the keyword "Movie" to anything). Rather than an error in data entry, do you perhaps mean a mistake made by iPhoto? That would be a "defect" (or "bug" to use the programmer's euphemism) rather than a "typo." Or do you mean something else.
Do you have movies in the Library?
As I said in my original post, not to my knowledge. If I am to believe iPhoto's keyword-search function or its Smart-album-creation function, then I am correct that there are no movies. But if I am to believe iPhoto's delete-keyword function, then there are a few movies--but how the heck can I find them if neither keyword-search nor Smart-album-creation will identify them?

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