# Instances inside an Attached Movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/instances-inside-an-attached-movie/111711>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 30, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/instances-inside-an-attached-movie/111711 "2004-05-30T03:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![larcho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@larcho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/larcho)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/instances-inside-an-attached-movie/111711/1 "2004-05-30T03:49:33Z")

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How do I manipulate an Instance inside an attachedMovie ?

For example, I create an createEmptyMovieClip and attach a Movie to it. The movie attached to it has an instance called mc\_mask and I want to move that instance from outside that movie (from where I created the empty clip).

This dosn’t seem to be an issue with loading external SWF, with attached Movies it seems to be differen.t

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/instances-inside-an-attached-movie/111711/2 "2004-05-30T03:54:36Z")

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Got it already. It seems that attachMovie dosn’t repleace the movie, it actually adds it.