Link button to movieclip...?

[font=Arial]hi all,

i am a newbee to actionscript…
so please help me out with this problem…
just understand this…

i have a movie which has 3 buttons which on clicking plays a 3 respective movieclips.lets call them movieclips MC1 MC2 MC3…

1). how do i link a button to a movieclip…???..what actionscript do i implement…??

2). when i placed my 3 buttons in a movieclip and after assigning them action to it(that is linking to movieclip), it did not show any action…why this happens…???..how could it be resolved…???[/font]

[font=Arial]i tried putting as to button but it doesnt work…::[/font]
[font=Arial]on (press) {
mc1.play();
}

please help me

Thanks in advance…
tanvi [/font]