Go to a frame and play a certain frame in a movieclip?

programming flash
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Hi,

This may be a really simple question but I’m trying to go to a frame on the timeline which has a movieClip object in it and then goto a specific frame in that movieClip and I can’t figure out how to code it. I thought something like:

gotoAndPlay(“movieClipframe”);
this.theMovieClip.gotoAndPlay(“theFrame”);

but I get a null reference error.

Does anybody know what I’m doing wrong or if I’m?

Thanks for any advice