How do I import movie event to iMovie 9.0.9 from external hard drive back up copy

I was using an external hard drive as my primary location for iMovie events and projects when that hard drive crashed. I was able to recover the data and save it to a new hard drive, but now iMovie 9.0.9 does not recognize the iMovie Events that were recovered and saved on the new hard drive (because iMovie didn't place them there in the first place). The recovered iMovie Projects work fine, but when I put the iMovie events into a folder called "iMovie Events" on the external hard drive, iMovie doesn't recognize them. In iMovie, under Events, I can see the name of the recovered iMovie Event, but when I click on it, it says no movie clips available.
I have a 2010 mac Mini with OS X 10.9., and haven't upgraded to iMovie 11 yet because when I tried, it mixed up the iMovie events and I couldn't see them all.
I appreciate your help.

That's the way they appear. In the <event name> folder, there are the clips and a few subfolders including Thumbnails and something else (I'm not in front of my mac right now). One other thing: the projects that use these events work. I can play the project, i just can't see the clips in the Events section. Unfortunately I hadn't gotten around to creating projects from all of these events yet, so i only some of the events have corresponding projects.
When I drag the <event name> folder into the iMovie Events folder and then run iMovie, an event icon will appear for that event (in current year 2014, even though the event may be years old), but I can't play or see the clips. Any other suggestions?
Thanks again.

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