# Flash movie initially appears all black!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-initially-appears-all-black/87780>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 23, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-initially-appears-all-black/87780 "2005-04-23T20:56:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-initially-appears-all-black/87780/1 "2005-04-23T20:56:18Z")

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I have a Flash movie on a website that shows extremely weird behavior in Internet Explorer 6+. When I try loading it with IE, the movie initially appears black. Only when I hover my mouse over it does it respond and start playing.It works perfectly fine in Firefox. I am using Flash MX Professional 2004 and compiling the swf to Flash Player version 6.

I’ve searched around a bunch of forums looking for an answer to this and though some people have posted this question, no one’s been able to answer.  
Any ideas?