Quicktime file from Photo Booth not playing.

I recently restored a Photo Booth movie from Time Machine. After attempting to play it it read "The document “Movie on 2010-01-23 at 03.35” could not be opened. The movie is not in a format that QuickTime Player understands." I have no idea what this means. The file is reading as a Quicktime file.

Hello,
did you try to open video clip from VLC or any other media player ?
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When I try to open it in VLC I get a more detailed message in the message log (i've snipped it down for the purpose of posting)
access_file debug: opening file `/Users/family/Movies/kids/Movie 36.mov'
main debug: using access2 module "access_file"
main debug: pre-buffering...
main debug: received first data for our buffer
main debug: pre-buffering done 851942 bytes in 0s - 7424 kbytes/s
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mp4 debug: skip box: "mdat"
mp4 debug: found Box: wide size 8
mp4 debug: skip box: "wide"
mp4 debug: found an empty box (null size)
mp4 debug: dumping root Box "root"
mp4 debug: | + mdat size 32
mp4 debug: | + wide size 8
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mp4 error: MP4 plugin discarded (no moov box)
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... mdatftypftypftypftypftypftypftyp....wide....mdat h.......
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... ftypqt ....qt ......................wide...smdat h .....
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