Mov file created in iDVD, iMovie or Quicktime doesn't open anymore in 10.10

Hi,
Back when I had an iBook 10.4, I worked on video. Using iMovie and iDVD, I made some creations which I burned on a DVD as well as changed into .mov format.
Those days have gone. Later computers didn't have iDVD or iMovie anymore, or what was left was half the fun of what it was before.
The result is that it has been a long time since I worked with movies.
In the meantime I got a MacBook Pro and I have X Yosemite on it.
Now I'm finding those old projects again on an external hard drive that needs to be cleaned. But it's impossible to open them.
If I click on the iMovieProj-file it asks me to look in the App-store, but it can't find anything on there. If I select Choose Application, nothing works either. If I open iMovie in the applications folder, it has two things: a grey iMovie 9.0.9 folder which doesnt turn black, and a purple star that's also called iMovie 9.0.9. The purple star opens, but it can't open my iMovieproject files. Unsupported file formats.
All that was for the original imovie file itself. Now, for the .mov file that I created myself back in the days on my iBook with aplle software.
Those don't open either. Quick time can't open it (it says I need to install QT 7, but I already have QT 10.4; I clicked ok anyway and then QT quitted). VLC doesnt open it (it says VLC doesnt open the audio or videoformat dvau; unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this). Any Video Converter doesnt manage to convert it.
So, what can I do?????

Very odd. If you like, you can send me a short clip and I can test it on my end.
zaksforummail (at) gmail (dot) com

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