Iphoto videos to imovie

I have videos on my iphone that are now in iphoto. How do I move them to imovie? I Selected file>import >movies and picked the album with the videos I wanted to import. It appeared to show files being imported for about 1 hr but I cannot find them in imovie now.
From reading previous post I now know to import all movies into imovie to start with. It sounds like others have had this problem too

i'll tell u what i did...
1. i movie asked to import video thumbnails of videos in iphoto, on first launch.
2. i did that
3. noticed dates on some videos were wrong
4. deleted the thumbnails
5. corrected the thumbnails in iphoto library
6. opened i movie again.
7. didn;t ask me to reimport them. there is no option to do that either.
8 mind u this doesn';t really import the iphoto videos but just creates thumbnails for them. so no duplicate copy.
9. now it only asks me to import tbs of newer videos.

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