# Access External Movie

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-external-movie/192932
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 3, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-external-movie/192932 "2006-07-03T00:01:10Z")
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### Author: ![slen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@slen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/slen)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-external-movie/192932/1 "2006-07-03T00:01:10Z")

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Hi:

I would like to set height after I load an external movie into a movie clip.

For example,

this.body\_mc.loadMovie(“body\_about.swf”);  
\_root.\_height = this.body\_mc.\_height;

Does these make sense?  
I always get height as 0, because body\_mc is an empty movieClip.

Can anyone help me on how to access the body\_about.swf height as soon as loaded the movie into the empty movie clip? Any suggesstion?

Thanks