Storage shows 200 GB of backup but where is that folder?

I am new to MAC so probably a silly question: I have a Mac Book Pro with OS X 10.7.3. I connected a external HD with 2TB and but about 500gb of stugg frommy PCs on there. Then I hooked up the Mac and time machine asked me if I wanted to use the External HD as back up. I agreed. After it was doing "it's thing" I moved an Itunes library from the external HD drive to the MAC (approx 400GB) but then I realized that I didnt want everything from itunes on there so i started deleting a lot and only left about 20gb (iTunes Media folder shows 20.1GB). When I look at storage for my MAC HD it shows that 299 GB of 500GB are being used and that 195GB are under backup.... what is that 195 and how can I free up that space on the MAC HD? Thanks. 

Guys - I figured out the bulk of the movies were in my iPhoto library in the Trash.  This is the primary resolution to the problem - FYI.

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