# Duplicate a movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-a-movieclip/285857>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 7, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-a-movieclip/285857 "2009-04-07T10:25:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![RossKidd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RossKidd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RossKidd)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-a-movieclip/285857/1 "2009-04-07T10:25:50Z")

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Hi,

I have a movieclip that when clicked returns a [object MovieClip]

function down(event:MouseEvent):void {

trace(event.currentTarget); // returns [object MovieClip]

}

what I would like to do is create a dulplicate of this. Is this possible?