# AS2 Help - How to iterate through child movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-help-how-to-iterate-through-child-movies/199119>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 31, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-help-how-to-iterate-through-child-movies/199119 "2006-08-31T07:20:30Z")\
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Is it possible to iterate through a MovieClip’s child MovieClips?

Lets say I have a MovieClip “a\_mc” which itself is made up of n number of child movieclips. Is there a way to iterate through all the children without creating an instance for each one?