Import a movie studio clip into iMovie

I would like to use a movie clip they show before a movie begins. Like the globe from Universal, or the road from Jerry Buckenheimer Films, or of course the lion from Metro Goldwyn, etc..
Is there a way to do this? I'm using iMovie 4.

Hi pontius,
welcome to this forum
respect local laws, you're in a copyright minefiled... ;-); but in some areas of this planet, it is allowed for private usage (don't publish your movies on the web...):
step a) you need a commercial dvd with that opening...
b) get rid of copyprotection; a handy tool is MacTheRipper, please search on your own...
c)
get for 20$ the Apple mpeg2 plugin
and for free the tool Streamclip
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
maybe you're lucky and on Google's last invention, video.google.com you find The MGM lion in some easier to handle format.....

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