How to import a clip from another Imovie movie ?

I have imported with Imovie HD in two distinct movies some clips that I wish to merge in one larger movie.
What is the simplest way to merge two movies ?
What is the simplest way to import just one clip from another movie ?
Thanks !!!
Luc

Well I found where those clips were trashed too. Its not the iMovie trash can as indicated by the help text! Its the user trash can. Here is how I found my clips in case this is useful for anyone else.
find . -name '*.dv' -exec ls -l {} \; | grep Trash
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 105600000 11 Dec 10:53 ./.Trash/Clip 251 copy.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 105600000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 251.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 88560000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 252.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 91560000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 253.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 53760000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 254.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 61320000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 255.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 179640000 11 Dec 10:46 ./.Trash/Clip 256.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 197880000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 257.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 69960000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 258.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 48720000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 259.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 146280000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 260.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 45120000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 261.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 78000000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 262.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 66960000 11 Dec 10:43 ./.Trash/Clip 263.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 311280000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 264.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 104160000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 265.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 40200000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 266.dv
To see the total space taken up by these files I did:
find . -name '*.dv' -exec ls -l {} \; | grep Trash | awk 'BEGIN { space = 0}; { space += $5}; END { print "total space",space}'
total space 1794600000
So I just have to empty the main trash in order to recover from my first copy/paste effort to move clips from one project to another. BTW is there a way to copy them to the clips pane and not the timeline?
Alex Spencer

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--Precisely.. This is another form of wasted time, effort and software masturbation that I was describing. I do not want to sit for hours while my clips render, just to accomplish something else that had nothing to do with applying effects to the clips in the first place. Once I have all the raw clips in a project, I plan on giving them to a professional video person to make a video. That's why, ALL I WANT TO DO IS SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FOLDERS ON THE DESKTOP.
Karl, I do appreciate your help and my tone has nothing to do with you. I'm just hoping you might be able to help me. I'm just steaming out of my ears that I gave up the PC world to use Macs precisely for the very reason of getting away from all this crap of doing a million stupid things to accomplish a goal. It's like scratching my right ear with my left foot. If I wanted to do that, I would stick with a PC!! At least, this way, I can be just as frustrated for a lot cheaper.
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