# Load movie question

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-question/37665
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**Created:** [December 12, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-question/37665 "2003-12-12T18:51:17Z")
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### Author: ![macneilslt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@macneilslt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/macneilslt)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-question/37665/1 "2003-12-12T18:51:17Z")

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I’m making a site in flash, and i use:  
[AS]  
on(release) {  
\_root.main.loadMovie(“main.swf”);  
}

[/AS]

to load external .swf files into empty movie clips…

How can i alter the AS so that if that movie is already loaded, it won’t load it again?