Why are my clips gray and useless?

I recently imported a whole bunch of large clips into iMovie for a school project (the process took about 2 days). All of them except one are turning up grey. When I try to add them to my movie iMovie won't let me drag them there. How can I fix this? I need urgent help.

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Terminating thread: 3
Terminating thread: 4
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???No.
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