New imovie overrides others

I created an imovie with audio from a slide show. I saved it and it is there as a file in my movie file with name.rcproject and the thumbnail of the first image.
I created a second imovie, again from a slide show with audio and saved this in the same way and the file is there next to the first one - thumbnail, name.rcproject.
Today, I double clicked on the second project and it opened with imovie and I played it through.
When I double clicked on the first movie to watch it, it opened imovie, showed the first image then instantly opened the second movie in its place.
Why has the second movie overridden the first one??
Fortunately I exported the first one to play on quicktime and saved it on a stick but I can no longer open it in imovie to make any further edits.
What have I done to make this happen and where has the first one gone. Have I lost it from my mac?

It isn't there - only the second one.
I can only locate the first one as .mov and it only opens in Quicktime. The .rcproject file has been overridden by the second one somehow and that is the only one showing up in the iMovie library. What I need to know is what did I do to cause this override? I assumed that they would both be saved as separate files!
I did notice that the size of the two files were very different. The first one had reduced to only 29mb and the second one was 230mb so it looks as though the first one has only the one image left in it and when it is opened it shows that one image then shows the second movie which I didn't open!!!
Puzzling I know - but why??
Thanks anyway.

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