# Controlling time!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-time/21425>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 21, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-time/21425 "2003-05-21T14:28:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![liew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f0a364/32.png) [@liew](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/liew)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-time/21425/1 "2003-05-21T14:28:52Z")

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I got a movie with 20 frames in it. I need to to play from 1st frame  
and stop at 10th frame.After that it waits for 10 second then jump to frame 11th and continue playing the rest. What action script need to write in order to do that? Please help me!!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-time/21425/2 "2003-05-21T14:30:59Z")

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Hi,  
You can use setInterval() to do what you want, there is a tute (i think ) at kirupa, or do a search of the forums

Hope that helps

SteveD