# Linking movieclip to movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-movieclip-to-movieclip/38885>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 31, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-movieclip-to-movieclip/38885 "2003-12-31T04:22:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sum](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sum)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-movieclip-to-movieclip/38885/1 "2003-12-31T04:22:16Z")

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hi… i have a movie clip thats loaded into another movieclip…

in the first movie clip there is:

```
     - scene 1
     - symbol 1 

```

from symbol 1 of the fist movieclip… i loaded another movieclip

in the second movie clip there is:

```
     -scene 1
     -symbol 1

```

wat i would like to do… .is direct an action from symbol 1 of the second movie clip to the symbol 1 of the first movieclip…

i tried using \_root and \_parent but those do not work… how do i link up the the first movie clip’s symbol 1?

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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:** [December 31, 2003, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-movieclip-to-movieclip/38885/2 "2003-12-31T09:09:52Z")

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can you post an fla?