# Load Movie from a button press

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-from-a-button-press/149340>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 28, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-from-a-button-press/149340 "2005-05-28T00:29:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Edward](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Edward)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-from-a-button-press/149340/1 "2005-05-28T00:29:31Z")

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I need helP!!!

I’m trying to load a new mc into a film - in a way that it will appear as a result of a button press - the action i used was:

createEmptyMovieClip(“imageHolder”, 1);  
imageHolder.\_x = 50  
imageHolder.\_y = 80  
loadMovie(“contact.swf”, “imageHolder”)

but my problem is that when i turnend the button into a mc still it won’t work,  
more so, i need to add the button with a pre action of “on press” …play…

- I plugged the script to the symble (button or mc)

If someone can and would be kind enough to fix my script i’d be most thankful

Ed.