Can't click on video from website due to image blocking

Hi folks,

Happy Friday! I hope you are all well. I've run into a stumbling block and hopefully somebody can help. I have made a slide that resembles a classroom and I have a video that I want to play on 'the back wall'. I have separate graphics for the teacher, desk, etc and they all animate and it has a nice depth effect.

However when previewing this and when the video (embedded video) loads, I can't click certain controls because the bounding boxes for the images are in the way.

Is there a way to disable those images so they still show up but ignore the mouse completely? I hope I'm explaining it okay. I've attached some images to demonstrate what I'm doing.

Many thanks.