Why won't my iSight camera connect in iMovie?

It works just fine in Photobooth, but it just shows the blue screen in the capture window for iMovie. I thought updating from Lion to Mountain Lion would do the trick, but no dice. Any ideas?

Malcolm, no it wasn't!  Now it is!  Now it works!  Thank you so much!!    I had disconnected everything to move the Mac to a new location and that's the only cable I forgot to plug back in.

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