# Controlling timeline of loaded movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-timeline-of-loaded-movie/111095>\
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**Created:** [May 23, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-timeline-of-loaded-movie/111095 "2004-05-23T14:53:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-timeline-of-loaded-movie/111095/1 "2004-05-23T14:53:59Z")

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I’m loading movie01.swf into \_root.movieHolder01, where movieHolder01 is an empty movieclip. At some point, I want to be able to gotoAndPlay frame 7 of movie01.swf (which is inside of \_root.movieHolder01).

From the \_root timeline, I’ve tried:

\_root.movieHolder01.gotoAndPlay(7)

and

\_level0.movieHolder01.gotoAndPlay(7)

The above didn’t work for me. How can I do this? Thanks.