# gotoAndPlay external .swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay-external-swf/250489>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay-external-swf/250489 "2008-01-29T23:50:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![MDuncanAU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@MDuncanAU](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MDuncanAU)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay-external-swf/250489/1 "2008-01-29T23:50:20Z")

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I was wondering if there is a way to play a selected frame when you launch an external .swf. When the .swf is launched it plays for 20 frames, which is a tween of it growing up. I have a stop(); at frame 20, then frame 21-40 I reversed the frames so that is shrinks. I have labeled frame 21 as “e1”. On my main stage I have a button that when pushed I want to gotoAndPlay(“e1”) so that it looks like the external .swf shrinks. I hope I explained this well enough. Is this possible?

This code does not work, but it might explain what I am trying to do…

```auto
on (release){
container.loadMovie("movie.swf")gotoAndPlay("e1");
}

```

As you can tell, my AS is very very poor.