# Controlling a loaded movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-loaded-movie/269008>\
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**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-loaded-movie/269008 "2008-08-21T12:47:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alber\_Kidd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Alber\_Kidd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alber_Kidd)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-loaded-movie/269008/1 "2008-08-21T12:47:41Z")

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I am loading external swfs with loader

var myRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“main.swf”);  
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();

myLoader.load(myRequest);

The problem is I need to do two things.

(i) control the timeline of my loaded swf things like gotoframe(10), play stop etc.

(ii) determine what frame it is currently on.

I suppose I need to turn my loading swf into a MC then do some on the other things.

Help would be much appreciated.