How to recover a video received in iChat 2 months ago?

I was able to find the chat by searching for it in the Finder but I tried to click on the videos and it just said the video file name. The chat was from January 24, 2015.

Hi,
Unless you have a version of iChat that can make Saved Videos  it does not make them as standard.
The File Menu might list a Recent List broken into two parts (text Chats and A/V Chats).
The Save Chat setting only saves Text Chats.
iChat 5 has Record Chat in the Video Menu (I don't have  an OS Version for iChat 6 to Chat)
Messages loses the ability to record and relies on Quicktime X's Screen Record Feature.
10:08 pm      Sunday; April 5, 2015
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