Deleting video frames in the middle of a clip

I would like to delete a video frame here and there in a video clip or delete very small frame ranges in the video clip. These unwanted frames are not at the beginning or end of the clip. In iMovie 3.0 this procedure was a piece of cake, but I am struggling to figure out how to do this in iMovie 08. Can this be done easily? If not, I guess it's back to iMovie 3.0.
Thank you.

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
It's easy. Just click on the clip which you want to edit, and drag the ends of the highlighted section so that the highlight selects just the region which you want to delete.
Then press the backspace/Delete key, or choose Edit and Reject Selection.
You'll see a small dark line at the top of the rejected (marked for deletion) region of your clip.
iMovie '08 is a "non-destructive" editor, so your piece of rejected video is not automatically destroyed.
Near the bottom left of the editing window you'll see, along the bottom edge of iMovie, the word "Show:", and beside it it's usually showing "All Clips". Click on the up-&-down-pointing arrowheads alongside "All Clips", and choose "Rejected Only". A header then appears at the top of the 'Event Library', and towards the centre right it shows "Move Rejected to Trash" and "Hide Rejected".
If you click on "Move Rejected to Trash" and confirm that choice, your clip will be gone! (..You can bring it back - and Undo anything else - by pressing Ctrl and Z..)
So select all the bits which you want to discard, then click on "Show: Rejected Only" ..and then you can move them to the Trash.
For more help with iMovie '08 it's a good idea to watch the iMovie Tutorials, and go through the Support pages, here: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie and here: http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/
⪢⪢..And here's an even simpler method of editing .."Trim to Selection", or ⌘B, explained here: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie-enjoy-21

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