Watching my Home Videos

I bought an ATV2 two days ago and am pretty happy with most of it. I really wish that it had the same functionality as iPhoto in regard to running a slideshow with both videos and photos. But since it doesn't I have set up to run photos and videos separately. The photos work fine.
Today I copied my videos from iPhoto to iTunes and asked ATV2 to play them and it seems that they can only be played one at a time rather than one after the other like a slideshow. I suppose that the product is designed assuming that Movies are true movies rather than short little Home Videos like I have.
Can anyone suggest a way that I can get them to play in a long string rather than one at a one?

Actually, I do have a playlist with the videos in it. Each video has a little symbol that looks kind of like a flat screen TV. Does that mean it is flagged as "movies" as you say?
But when I select Movies on ATV2 I don't get any chance to select a playlist. It just opens a list of all my videos which I assume comes directly from my iTunes Movies library. When I select a movie to play it just plays that one and then stops. I may be missing something but I just can't figure out a way to play them all one after the other.

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