# Duplicating Movie Clips

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips/301138
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**Created:** [December 3, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips/301138 "2009-12-03T19:42:56Z")
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### Author: ![greatwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@greatwall](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/greatwall)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips/301138/1 "2009-12-03T19:42:56Z")

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I have a line of 6 image clips on a stage, the first 4 are visible, the last two are hidden. A mouseover moves the hidden clips into view. As image 5 comes into view, I want to load a 7th image and as image 6 comes into view, I want to load an 8th image.  
Yes it is a dynamic slide show and the first 6 images load OK but I cannot get the new images to load.  
I have read that it is not possible to create a new moviclip object via code (which I find odd) so how is this done. Docs suggest that a duplicate of an existing one has to be made but all attempts to get a new clip to show have so far failed.

Would someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction.  
Code:  
duplicatemovieclip(im6, im7, \_root.getnexthighestdepth());  
\_root.im7.\_x=\_root.im6+210;