How do you restore a passport ilibrary file to a Mac iPhoto directory?

My objective was to move photos and movies to an external hard drive.  I was successful in moving DVD projects.  Now I have movies that it cannot find some the pictures and clips which are in iPhoto events.  I probably messed up by moving iPhoto events to the HD which created the disconnect when I deleted them from the Mac library.  In attempting to fix this I copied the iPhoto library to the HD and attempted to restore the library version from 11/6 which was before I started all the moving.   When I copied the library file from passport to the mac hard drive it did not go into the iPhoto directory.  iPhoto did not find it when I attempted to link to it but I was able to manually find and link to the mac hard drive library of 11/6.  Plus iMovie still does not recognize the photos in projects so I'm as broke today as I was yesterday. 
Before starting this I researched in the Apple Community including buying the iPhoto library manager app.  Obviously I've missed something!!
(I'm running OSX 10.9.5, iPhoto 9.5.1 and iMovie 10.0.5)
1. Is there a way to restore the passport library to the Mac iPhoto directory?  Or is this not necessary?
2. How can I relink the movies to their photos and clips in the iPhoto library?  Or am I toast? 

Sorry bu we can not see you or your computer
How exactly did you do this move?
The correct way (the only way actually) is to be sure the external drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) and then
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
As to your specific questions
1 - that totally depends on knowing exactly what you did and how you moved the iPhoto library - if you followed the above instructions exactly then you can simply drag it bace as a single entity
2 - Again with no details no one knows - moving the library correctly using a default "managed" library (the iPhoto preference to "copy imported items to the iPhoto library is in its checked state) changes nothing - if you made the poor choice of having a referenced library(The iPhoto advanced preference to "copy imported items to the iPhoto library" has been unchecked) which is strongly NOT recommended. then you can not relink with iPhoto (Aperture can) and you will have to move the library back to the main drive so the path to the referenced originals is the same as when they were imported
LN

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