Move Timeline Playhead to next Video Clip - Ignoring Audio Clips?

I'm colour correcting and want to move the playhead quickly to each video clip.
I wondered if there's any way to get the playhead to ignore audio clips and simply jump to the next video clip?

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"..Who is programming at Apple these days?.." ..This is the way that iMovie has worked since Version 1. It isn't a "bug", but simply the way that editing works in this easy-to-use "consumer" (..i.e; amateur..) editing program.
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