# Controlling A Movie Clip inside another Movie clip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-movie-clip-inside-another-movie-clip/214605>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 30, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-movie-clip-inside-another-movie-clip/214605 "2007-01-30T14:56:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![toiletflush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@toiletflush](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/toiletflush)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-movie-clip-inside-another-movie-clip/214605/1 "2007-01-30T14:56:46Z")

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I’ve had my share of problems with this one…I hope someone knows what the hell I’m doing right/wrong and could help me out:(

Okay, I made a movieclip to put the blocks(which are movieclips too) in a breakout clone.

lets give the container movieclip the instance name “container”…the blocks are preset in that container with their own instance names…what I want to do is a hittest with those blocks but I found out that…

(this.hitTest(\_root.container.block1)) doesn’t work…any ideas why?

even changing the x and y properties of the blocks doesn’t work…  
(\_root.container.block1.\_x = 5)