# Flash MX help stopping a movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-help-stopping-a-movieclip/169815>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 19, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-help-stopping-a-movieclip/169815 "2005-11-19T20:55:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/97f17d/32.png) [@ree](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ree)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-help-stopping-a-movieclip/169815/1 "2005-11-19T20:55:51Z")

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My knowledge of actionscript \>= 0. You have been warned.

So I’m using the falling snow action found on the Kirupa website ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow.htm)), and I have everything working great, the snowflakes are drifting gorgeously down my movie, and I’m deliriously happy that something _works,_ and then I realize that I want to make the snowflakes stop. Specifically on frame 433, when my new ‘scene’ begins.

I tried a buncha different (probably pretty dumb) things, like stop();, movieclip.stop();, even re-typed the duplicatemovieclip script to read removemovieclip and adjusted the math accordingly. Needless to say, it was all in vain.

If anyone could describe in excruciation detail how I could instantly wipe my screen clear of snowflakes, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks a bunch in advance,  
Ree