# Help with loadMovie

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**Created:** [June 30, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-loadmovie/291471 "2009-06-30T07:33:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![JOliver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JOliver](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JOliver)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-loadmovie/291471/1 "2009-06-30T07:33:41Z")

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Hello,

I have a flash file with a movieclip on the stage - instance name “hold\_mc”. Currently I am loading an external swf file (named tester.swf) into this movie clip with the following actionScript:

loadMovie(“tester.swf”, “hold\_mc”);

This works fine and once loaded, ‘tester.swf’ begins playing from frame 1.

However… I would like to add some code that lets me specify a frame or better still - a frame label - that “tester.swf” will begin to play from once it is loaded into “hold\_mc”. It sounds like it should be relatively straight forward, but after trawling the web for an age I cant seem to find a solution that actually works.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

John