Suddenly unable to view project for no apparent reason.

Hello All,
I've been working on a short documentary. Everything has been going along swimmingly. I left the project to partipate in a conference call. When I came back, and press play to see where I had left off, the picture (edits, dissolves, graphics, etc) is unavailable...just black. I can hear the audio perfectly well.
I have tried restarting, reverting, and restoring. Nothing has helped. Perhaps there's a switch flipped by accident. Any ideas? It must be something basic. Right?
DG

Phew! Sorry about the flurry of activity (all by me). It turns out that I needed to select image under the canvas window where the button allows one to choose between: image, image and wireframe, or wireframe. I'm not sure how, but this was set to something else. Created quite a panic.
DG

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