Splitting an iMovie '09 event in Event Library

I guess this was eventually bound to happen--I imported a movie but forgot to create a new event and appended it another event. Is there a way to either split and create a new Event (not project) or better yet, like in Project, duplicate it, then I can split and delete the first half on one and the second half on another?
(On latter idea I was thinking I could just duplicated the iMovie Events folder, give it another name and re-open iMovie--would that work?)

In iMovie, select the first clip that would go in the second event.
The right-click/SPLIT EVENT BEFORE CLIP

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