# Help with duplicate movie clips

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-duplicate-movie-clips/82036
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 7, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-duplicate-movie-clips/82036 "2005-03-07T07:10:38Z")
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### Author: ![rooosterboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@rooosterboy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rooosterboy)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-duplicate-movie-clips/82036/1 "2005-03-07T07:10:38Z")

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Howdy. I have just completed this tutorial : [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow2.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow2.htm) and I have the snow reversed to go up instead of down (in my case they are balloons) I was wondering, I have the event on say frame 6 of my flash file) but when I jump to the next scene (yes I used scenes I know deprecation issues) the duplicate movie clips keep going. I have tried

removeMovieClip(“snow”);

in the actions layer on the main timeline, but the (in my case) balloons just keep rising. How do I remove the duplicated movie clips created using this code:

for (k=0; k\<7; k++) {  
duplicateMovieClip(this.snow, “snow”+k, k);  
}

Earlier in the timeline.  
Sorry if this is a basic question but I am tearing y hair out here…I am a bit of a dunce when it comes to invoking AS on timeline frames.  
Basically the balloons form part of a preloading sequence I want to end when time has passed or a user presses a skip button. The premise is that the skip button and the timer (built into another movieclip) take the flash file to a frame, which attempts to unload all copies of that movieclip.

Thanks

Roosterboy