# Accessing mc farthest from z

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-mc-farthest-from-z/288064>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 10, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-mc-farthest-from-z/288064 "2009-05-10T15:47:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![warren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@warren](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/warren)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-mc-farthest-from-z/288064/1 "2009-05-10T15:47:18Z")

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Hello.

I’ve loaded 5+ instanced movie clips, each of which play 48 frames simultaneously once and then stop (mc1,mc2,…mc5)

These mcs were added via addChild.

```auto
private function setupMenuA():void {
  addChild(mc1);
  
  //properties
  mc1.blendMode="screen";

  // code to play mc1 once and then stop
  mc1.addFrameScript(0, function() {mc1.stop();});
  mc1.addFrameScript(47, function() {mc1.stop();})

}

// call to play menu A
private function playMenuA(event:Event):void {
  // go to first frame
  mc1.gotoAndPlay(0);

  mc1.play();

}

```

The problem is after completing the animations-any further MouseEvents only see mc5 and I cannot access mc1-mc4.

I’m stuck and any help would be appreciated.  
Thanks.