Missing Video thumbnails in iphoto in iphoto 11

I have just discovered lots of missing movies in my iphoto library, I have re imported them from an iphoto backup, and if i search for the keyword movie they appear, but no thumbnails appear in the photo display. I have tried rebuilding the library but none of the imported videos show up. New videos imported from my camera show up fine.

Thanks for the quick reply!
I triple checked a handful of the video files and they aren't exhibiting black at the start.
How I checked:
- Select black video thumbnail image
- Press space bar (to "zoom" and begin playing video"
- Stop video playback at approx. five seconds in (video counter reads 00:00:05)
- Rewind "playhead" to very start of video so that the counter reads 00:00:00 and there is definately an image / content being displayed (e.g. is not black)
See attached screen shot with playhead at 00:00:00

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