How to organize movies in subdirectories?

When I add a video to the library, iTunes places it in the iTunes Library, Movies subdirectory, and then a sub-subdirectory based on the name of the video file. For example, a file named Event1opening.mp4 would end up in the iTunes Library/Movies/Event1opening directory. Thus if I have twenty Event1 files, I end up with them in 20 different subdirectories, one file per directory.
I would like to be able to organize these subdirectories so that all of the "Event1" files are in a single subdirectory. That is, I would have an iTunes/Movies/Event1 subdirectory and all Event1 files would be in it. It really does not make any difference to iTunes which displays the individual titles and they can be found with relative ease. However, I am also accessing the library through a set top box and a couple of Android devices. They just display the iTunes library file structure. It is not as easy to scroll through every directory to find the specific file and it would be nice to be able to group the files so that instead of scrolling through 1000 files (50 events of 20 files each), I could just scroll through the 50 directories and then find the specific file within that directory. I have about 1,000 files in the library now, and continue to add more.
Can anyone offer a suggestion?
As background, I am running itunes 10. I have passed several upgrades since I haven't seen the need and most of my Apple products are all older iPods that can not take advantage of features in the more recent versions. I would upgrade though if that was required to be able to accomplish what I want to do.

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