# \[CS4 AS2\] Really really newbie question- sorry! Referencing attached clip

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**Created:** [August 17, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cs4-as2-really-really-newbie-question-sorry-referencing-attached-clip/294594 "2009-08-17T10:21:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![KaH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb9ed0/32.png) [@KaH](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/KaH)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cs4-as2-really-really-newbie-question-sorry-referencing-attached-clip/294594/1 "2009-08-17T10:21:28Z")

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I apologize in advance for how much of a noob question this probably is!

Using attachMovie, I’ve attached a movie from my library to a clip already on the stage - great, that worked, wonderful.

centerpoint.attachMovie(“making\_mc”, “making\_mcattached”, 22);

Now I want to refer to a movie clip inside of this attached movie clip from the main timeline. How do I go about doing that? I feel as though I’ve tried every combination of centerpoint.making\_mcattached.back etc. etc. (back is the name of the mc inside of my attached movie clip). What terribly obvious thing am I missing this time or am I really just going about this whole thing completely wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated- since I really am very new to all of this I would really like to learn and unfortunately I’m not having much luck trying to figure this out on google or by trial and error.

Thank you!