# Adding a child

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-a-child/259526
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**Created:** [May 6, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-a-child/259526 "2008-05-06T12:33:02Z")
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### Author: ![vivaretro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a3d4f5/32.png) [@vivaretro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vivaretro)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-a-child/259526/1 "2008-05-06T12:33:02Z")

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Help!  
I’m not understanding how to add a child to a MovieClip. When I put in

Oregon.addChild(Baker);

where Oregon is a MovieClip converted to a symbol and  
Baker is also a MovieClip converted to a symbol and on the  
flash timeline, I get the following error:

1017: The definition of base class MovieClip was not found.