# Load movie
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/5816
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 22, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/5816 "2002-09-22T22:13:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@twiceborn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/twiceborn)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/5816/1 "2002-09-22T22:13:02Z")
Scene 2 has one frame with a stop action. In that frame there is a movie clip (“menuclip”), with an empty 1st frame, that reveals a series of menu buttons using a mask (with motion). I want to load a movie “movie.swf” upon release of the first revealed button, button “a”, into “emptyclip”.
Action on button “a” is, upon release:
loadMovie(“movie.swf”), “\_root.emptyclip”;
BTW, “movie.swf” is in the same folder. (used loadMovie successfully in scene one, but those buttons are in frame one, not sitting in a movie clip)
Where do I put the “emptyclip” and what action do I give button “a” to get “movie.swf” to play? Hope I’ve explained this clearly enough… would appreciate any help I can get.
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/5816/2 "2002-09-22T22:56:29Z")
on (release) {
loadMovie(“movie.swf”, “\_root.emptyclip”);
}
should work fine. If emptyclip is on the main time line.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie/5816/3 "2002-09-22T22:57:10Z")
Just make sure you give emptyclip the instance name emptyclip.
on (release) {
loadMovie(“movie.swf”, “\_root.emptyclip”);
\_root.emptyclip.play(); \<---- Play it if it’s currently stopped
}