Mystery photo is locked and prevents me from deleting iMovie project

I made a move with iMovie which included a photo that I didn't know was locked. Having transferred the iMovie to a DVD I moved the file to the main trash so as to free up space on my Mac. Before emptying main trash, I decided to delete a selection of the photos used in the iMovie in question. I managed to delete the photos no problem, or at least they are no longer in my trash so I presume they've been deleted. However, the iMovie cannot be deleted when I try and empty trash - I get a message telling me that a certain photo is locked and cannot be deleted, therefore the iMovie cannot be deleted. However, the photo in question is no longer in my iPhoto library so I have no way of finding the photo to unlock it and thus enable me to delete the photo/iMovie and empty my trash. My start up disk is nearly full so I really need to empty the trash to free up some space. Any ideas?

Thanks for responding you guys. Further scowering for clues in other discussion threads provided the answer thanks to "windowsbegone": GENIUS!! My problem is now solved. I followed "windowsbegone"'s instructions from another thread in the hope that it would help and it did. HURRAH!! Here's what they said:
"Find the movie file where the trash item that you want to recover are. Cntl-click the file. Choose "show package contents" Click on "Media". Find the clips that you want to recover."
Doing this showed me icons of the locked photo and I simply went into the info and unlocked them. Emptied the trash and they're gone. At last!
Thanks to everyone who took time to think about this - much appreciated.

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