# How do I reference linked movieclips in loaded SWFs?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reference-linked-movieclips-in-loaded-swfs/299475 "2009-11-05T14:56:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reference-linked-movieclips-in-loaded-swfs/299475/1 "2009-11-05T14:56:05Z")

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Let’s say I have a movieclip in my SWF’s library, and its linkage is set to “MyClip” and it’s set to export.

I can add it to the stage by saying “addChild (new MyClip as MovieClip)”

Now let’s say I load a SWF as a loader object, and that loaded SWF has a similarly linked movieclip. How do I reference the linked movieclip in the loaded SWF?