# Controlling MC's within screens

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-mcs-within-screens/226279
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 19, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-mcs-within-screens/226279 "2007-05-19T17:16:51Z")
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### Author: ![Baggio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@Baggio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Baggio)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-mcs-within-screens/226279/1 "2007-05-19T17:16:51Z")

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Hi,

I’m making a slide show presentation, I have a child screen nested inside a parent screen. When I load the child the MC inside it seems to have already been played. I tried adding a stop(); in the first frame inside the MC then calling a gotoandplay in the first frame of the child but it doesn’t seem to work and the MC doesn’t play…

This is quite urgent as i have the presentation on monday so any help would be great!

Thanks