# \_parent loadmovie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-parent-loadmovie/123451>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 23, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-parent-loadmovie/123451 "2004-09-23T19:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![lookupthere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lookupthere](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lookupthere)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-parent-loadmovie/123451/1 "2004-09-23T19:54:50Z")

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hi everybody!

i have a button in a loaded movie, which on release is supposed to create a new empty clip on the parent MC and then load another movie into that empty MC. somehow it’s just not loading the new MC when i test the parent movie. in the last frame of the loaded movie i have:

```auto
 
gallery1.onRelease = function () {
	_parent.gallerycontainer.unloadMovie();
	_parent.createEmptyMovieClip("gallerycontainer", 1);
	gallerycontainer.loadMovie("gallery1.swf", 1);
	gallerycontainer._x = -50 ;
	gallerycontainer._y = -50 ;
}

```

i’ve tried everything back and forth, and i’m getting desperate…

thanks, martin