# Kirupa.com - Duplicate Movie Clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-duplicate-movie-clips/352495>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [November 23, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-duplicate-movie-clips/352495 "2014-11-23T07:59:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-duplicate-movie-clips/352495/1 "2014-11-23T07:59:51Z")

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Many cool animations or special effects in Flash use the duplicate movie function. The duplicate movie, as its name implies, creates another copy of the movie clip and places the copied movie clip on stage. This tutorial will teach you how to create duplicates of a movie clip when a button is pressed.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/duplicate.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/duplicate.htm)