# Calling mcs from frame

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-mcs-from-frame/131233
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 13, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-mcs-from-frame/131233 "2004-12-13T21:35:35Z")
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### Author: ![Freddythunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@Freddythunder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Freddythunder)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-mcs-from-frame/131233/1 "2004-12-13T21:35:35Z")

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Hello again.  
In my undying attempt to use the simplest things in 2004, I have run across another oddity.  
I have 5 movieClips (named b1,b2,b3 etc) that I want to tell to play() one at a time with actionscript. So I write a simple getTimer thing with a trace that worked fine. But the movieClips would not play(). So, I took out all the code and put in this:

```auto
b1.play();

```

…Nothin. So I tried:

```auto
_root.b1.play();

```

…Nothin. So I put in in a movieClip (load) just off the stage…works. Why won’t it play from the frame? Should I start putting my code in movieClips?? What the???

Happy Holidays.