# AS3 loading movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-loading-movies/286973>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 23, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-loading-movies/286973 "2009-04-23T20:42:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![squarelight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@squarelight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/squarelight)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-loading-movies/286973/1 "2009-04-23T20:42:39Z")

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I have a movieclip that I have labeled mc\_container on my main timeline.

I load a swf into it with this:

var i =new Loader();  
i.load(new URLRequest(“myflashmovie.swf”));  
mc\_container.addChild(i);

it works but I can’t control the timeline of the loaded movie with the following:

i.gotoAndStop(1);

Anyone know why?