# Flash8: duplicate movie clip with an external imaged loaded in it.possible?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 4, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-duplicate-movie-clip-with-an-external-imaged-loaded-in-it-possible/240564 "2007-10-04T01:47:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![eddmosphere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c0e974/32.png) [@eddmosphere](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eddmosphere)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-duplicate-movie-clip-with-an-external-imaged-loaded-in-it-possible/240564/1 "2007-10-04T01:47:21Z")

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Hi there! This is my problem:

I have a movie clip in which I loaded an external JPG to. Well, this movie clip works as a thumbnail and, as I click in it, I want the thumb’s image to be loaded (“again”) in another movie clip. duplicateMovieCLip does not seem to work.

I don’t want to load the image twice (as it strikes me as bandwidth waste…). Does this make sense? Or must I be load the image twice? (of course…I could use smaller images for thumbnails…) Anyways…this is what I need 🙂

thanks in advance!