How to adjust bounding box?

Hello,
I already googelt a lot, but could not find a solution to my problem. Well, the thing is I have created some .eps images in various other programs. Now I want to 'place' them into a InDesign document, in order to combine them into a multi-panel picture.
Well, the images have white background, i.e. the bounding box does not fit the visual content of the images. How can I adjust the size of the bounding box to match only the visible parts of the picture?
I really found no hint for something like "select bounding box" or "adjust bounding box". Resizing the brown frame (I think this IS the bounding box, correct?) always resizes the figure itself, which is not what I want, because the white background at the sides causes distortions of the proportions of the visible image.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Sebastian

I was quite tickled with it myself... As is to be expected it uses the old frame though, so for example if you've placed something to the trim box, but then want to include the bleeds it's not much use as it'll shrink it at the same time. I can't see how you could make it understand that you want it the original size, not shrunk.
This is when another script I have comes in useful, to save you having to navigate to the correct place for that file, you select something and run it and it places from the parent folder of that object. Forget where I found it though....

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