# Access symbol inside movie clip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-symbol-inside-movie-clip/300266
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 18, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-symbol-inside-movie-clip/300266 "2009-11-18T14:48:44Z")
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### Author: ![jamyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jamyo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jamyo)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-symbol-inside-movie-clip/300266/1 "2009-11-18T14:48:44Z")

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Hi all.

I’m sure this has been asked but the search is not working atm. Basically I have an movie clips which contains various other movie clips. These other clips are named clip1\_mc etc.

This big movie clip is dropped onto a frame in the main timeline so it plays when the program loads. I have my main actions on the timeline and I want to access the movie clip instance names inside the big clip. Is there a call to maybe get the children or contents of a clips using an event listener?

Many Thanks