# Load movie?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/15899>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 19, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/15899 "2003-03-19T03:50:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chivo01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Chivo01](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Chivo01)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/15899/1 "2003-03-19T03:50:08Z")

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Ok I’m building a full flash site and have a question about loading a .swf. When the site first opens it loads a .swf file that in turn loads another into itself. the code I used do do that is.

```
createEmptyMovieClip("leftmc", 2);
leftmc.loadMovie("leftinfo.swf");
leftmc._x = 66;
leftmc._y = 99;

```

That loads fine, my problem is that I want to load another .swf file in to that same position when a nav. button on the main timeline is clicked and I assumed that I would use

```
      On (release) {
             leftMc.loadMovie("aboutus.swf");
         }

```

But that’s not working.  
what should I do

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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:** [March 19, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/15899/2 "2003-03-19T03:52:32Z")

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Try adding \_root to it.[AS]on (release) {  
\_root.leftMc.loadMovie(“aboutus.swf”);  
}[/AS]

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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:** [March 19, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/15899/3 "2003-03-19T05:50:22Z")

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hey **eg** … 🙂

if i understood correctly … **\_root** won’t work  
i think the buttons are in the swf loaded in the main movie :-\

i’d say

```auto
on (release) {
	this._parent.leftMc.loadMovie("aboutus.swf");
}

```

=)