Freezing a frame in the imovie to empahsise a point

Making a training movie for my webpage. Took some photos of text on whiteboard. Downloaded them iPhoto and dropped into iMovie in sequence and am adj timing as will do a voiceover. Using Ken Burns to feature on a section of the text. Now I want to stop the movie at certain places to emphasise a point and I will use voiceover top expalin my point. So I want to stop the movie for 10/15 secs and then have it restart automatically. Cant see a button etc to do this. ????

Did You really ?
• Turn on Advance tools in iMovie Pref. window ?
• Ctrl-Click on video clip in PROJECT window ?
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