# Help with loading external movie clip(beating a dead horse)

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-loading-external-movie-clip-beating-a-dead-horse/140003
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**Created:** [March 7, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-loading-external-movie-clip-beating-a-dead-horse/140003 "2005-03-07T19:58:54Z")
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### Author: ![safariwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@safariwave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/safariwave)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-loading-external-movie-clip-beating-a-dead-horse/140003/1 "2005-03-07T19:58:54Z")

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Hello folks, I seem to have run into some problem with a project of mine. I have a Main movie which loads multiple external movies. I am using an empty movie clip called contents to load them into.

one of my external movies has a button in it that launches a centered pop up window(kirupa tutorial). This external movie named site works perfectly by itself, but when loaded into the main movie, the button does not work. I’m using:

on (release) {  
\_root.contents.loadMovie(“site.swf”);  
}

any input would be greatly appreciated.