# Can I load a movie inside a loaded movie?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-i-load-a-movie-inside-a-loaded-movie/4493
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 12, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-i-load-a-movie-inside-a-loaded-movie/4493 "2002-08-12T03:10:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mvu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mvu)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-i-load-a-movie-inside-a-loaded-movie/4493/1 "2002-08-12T03:10:38Z")
If I have a loaded movie in a flash website can I load another movie inside the loaded one?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-i-load-a-movie-inside-a-loaded-movie/4493/2 "2002-08-12T06:37:51Z")
but if you want to control something inside the loaded movie…
then you have to navigate through the main movie too…
for example if you load the moive to
**\_root.movie.lmovie**.loadMovie("a…
and in the loaded movie you want it to go to frame 5 inside a movieclip that is \_root. **lmov.mc**.gotoAndStop(5);
then you have to make it
\_root.movie.lmovie.lmov.mc.gotoAndPlay(5);
NB! Make sure there are no movieclips with the same instance name inside the 2 movies… otherwize it’ll nit work
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-i-load-a-movie-inside-a-loaded-movie/4493/3 "2002-08-12T14:15:57Z")
Thank you, but what is lmovie?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-i-load-a-movie-inside-a-loaded-movie/4493/4 "2002-08-12T17:04:50Z")
“lmovie”, “movie”, “lmov” and “mc” are just some randomly picked instance names of a bunch of movieclips… so to… explain the stuff for ya.