# External movieclip control

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-movieclip-control/145590
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 23, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-movieclip-control/145590 "2005-04-23T23:06:44Z")
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### Author: ![kdesign21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kdesign21](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdesign21)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-movieclip-control/145590/1 "2005-04-23T23:06:44Z")

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Can you make a button “gotoandplay” a frame and then after a certain point in the timeline a movieclip would load?

this is my code now:  
on (press) {  
gotoAndPlay(“play”);

createEmptyMovieClip(“orthoagainmc”, 50);  
orthoagainmc.\_x = 110;  
orthoagainmc.\_y = 19;  
orthoagainmc.loadMovie(“ortho.swf”);  
}

but the ortho.swf loads before I want it too. ( before the action that starts at frame “play” ends. I want the ortho.swf to start after the action ends.