How do I reload my video clips that I recorded into iMovie?

How do I reload my video clips that I recorded into iMovie? My project is there but my original iMovie videos are gone which does not allow my iMovie to play.  The screen is black. I need Help!

Please have a look at my post at:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5649660?tstart=0
where I describe what files should be present for iMovie 9 to work for someone else with a similar problem.  They must either be in the users Movies folder on the start up drive or at the root level of any other partition or connected external drive.

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