How to display clip duration in iMovie 10?

This must be a very basic task but I can't find out how to do it im iMovie 10.
I've imported a 10 minute video clip in to iMovie 10.
I want to cut a segment of the 10 minute clip from, say, 6:03 seconds in to the clip until 8:13 in to the clip and place this segment in to another project or just export it as a file.
I can't seem to find a way of doing this. There's no duration timer that would allow me to progress to 6:03, mark it and then progress to 8:13, mark that point and then copy.
There must be a way of doing this (I assume).

I won't comment on how offensive it is to end users for Apple to remove such basic functionality. It seems as if the days of a Mac providing useful functionality out of the box without extra and expensive software are on their way out. This isn't even an advanced feature - and it used to be present.
This is one of the many reasons why so many people use iMovie HD 06. The display head time is always visible.
You can also use Final Cut Pro X.

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=================
* IntegerEditor is a 1.4 class used by TableFTFEditDemo.java.
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import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.DefaultCellEditor;
import javax.swing.JFormattedTextField;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.KeyStroke;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
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import javax.swing.JDialog;
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import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
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import java.awt.GridLayout;
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