# How to duplicate movie clip in AS 3

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-duplicate-movie-clip-in-as-3/250081
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 25, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-duplicate-movie-clip-in-as-3/250081 "2008-01-25T10:23:34Z")
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### Author: ![shaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@shaji](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shaji)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-duplicate-movie-clip-in-as-3/250081/1 "2008-01-25T10:23:34Z")

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Hi,  
I would like to create duplicates of movie clip in actionscrt 3.0. Movie clip is in flash library and I am able to place them on stage programmatically. My question is how do I duplicate those movie clips.

Hope this makes sense.