How to edit a large movie into smaller, separate movies?

.: Hello. This question is so basic I'm embarrassed to ask it, but I am stuck. I am a new user to iMovie 6, and bought and am reading David Pogue's iMovie 6 & iDVD The Missing Manual, but can't seem to find an answer to what must be the most basic editing task. I have a couple of 40-50 minute movie clips made with a Flip Ultra. I imported one into iMovie 6, and it took about 25 minutes to do so, and appears as a DV-NTSC clip. The movie is 42:21:10, and is of a concert. I want to extract the video of the performance of each individual song, and create a series of smaller movies, each one featuring one song.
I cannot for the life of me determine how to do this. I'm deep inside Chapter 5 of David's book, where he discusses trimming, cropping, splitting, etc., but I can't figure out how to save a cropped clip so that it can be made into a new movie. I am near tears at this point. This MUST be the easiest, simplest thing to do in iMovie, and I can't get past the starting gate.
If anyone can help me with some pointers and advice, I'll be very grateful.
Thank you and kind regards.

Open a new movie project side by side with the initial one, and drag the cropped clip into it.

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