# Help..contolling a movie with another movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-contolling-a-movie-with-another-movie/20257>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 6, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-contolling-a-movie-with-another-movie/20257 "2003-05-06T22:36:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ehmmm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@ehmmm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ehmmm)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-contolling-a-movie-with-another-movie/20257/1 "2003-05-06T22:36:51Z")

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Problem-

I have a called menu.swf menu one side of my html page and a seperate green.swf movie on the other side.

How can i controll green.swf using menu.swf ?

I know this can be done wiht ‘dot notation’ and ‘tellTarget’ but i dosent seem to work for me can some one show me the actionscript.