Having trouble importing a movie clip in iM9

I am having trouble getting a video clip I made into iMovie 9.
I recorded this video clip on my Android cellphone.   When I uploaded it into my computer, it came up on my desktop with the tag .mp4. I found that I could not select it for importing into iMovie, and suspected that iMovie doesn't like the .mp4 tag. So I opened up QuickTime and converted the clip into a movie with the .mov tag. The new converted movie's thumnail correctly showed up on my desktop.
I then opened up iMovie and opened up my project, complete with the Event Library open. I did File>Import>Movies and choose my clip.   I got the normal visual and aural indications of a successful import, but the clip did not show up in my project. In fact it did not show up anywhere in iMovie.
I'm wondering what I need to to do find this clip or at least do something else so that I can put it into my project.   Thanks!

More info: I pulled up Finder>Movies>iMovie Events>My Project>iMovie Cache> and my clip was there in fine fettle.
But I still can't find a way to get it to appear in my project's Event Library, which is what it should do, once I've imported it. (I believe.)

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