IMovie movie imports fail to show

I have a bunch of GoPro .mp4 movies which I want to edit in iMovie. If I import one of them, it appears in the correct event and I can use it in a project. If I import several of them at once (and leave iMovie to get on with it) they fail to appear in the expected event. The weird thing is, if I "reveal in finder" I can see all the movies I wanted to import in the correct iMovie events folder, but they don't appear as thumbnailed videos in the event browser within iMovie. I've tried a few times and this happens each time; they are copied to the correct folder but don't appear in iMovie.
Why? Or more usefully, how do I fix it?

iI move the folder into trash, empty the trash, 'bingo' the file reappears in its original location (in the events library)... Thanks all the same, I would like to find a better way of deleting folders and files.
The idea here is to force iMovie '08 to re-thumbnail/cache the source files (which are not trashed) the next time the application opens. In cases where the supporting thumbnail/cache file was created with corruptions, this work flow often works by creating uncorrupted files which then display properly in the iMovie '08 Event Window. Basically, iMovie '08 scans all Event Folders each time the application starts up. If it finds any files are missing, it re-creates them automatically and hopefully gets them right the second time around. If it doesn't, then you can always fall back on trying to re-import the original files from the camcorder.

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