# Load specific movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-specific-movieclip/137925>\
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**Created:** [February 18, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-specific-movieclip/137925 "2005-02-18T12:30:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ghjr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dec6dc/32.png) [@ghjr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ghjr)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-specific-movieclip/137925/1 "2005-02-18T12:30:13Z")

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Let’s say I have two SWFs… a preloader SWF and a mainmovie SWF. The preloader SWF loads in the main movie SWF with the the LoadMovie function and assigns it the name of mainmovie\_mc.

The way it is currently set up, the preloader loads the whole mainmovie\_mc before playing it. Would there by a way for me just to load certain MC’s that are located in mainmovie\_mc?

I tried putting all the MCs I want to load into a container\_mc, and targeting that from the preloader, but it doesn’t target until mainmovie\_mc has been loaded entirely (which kinda makes sense hehe). Any ideas?

EDIT: I’ve also just tried \_framesloaded on the mainmovie\_mc to load only the first frame, but that also only loads the first frame after the whole MC is loaded.

Cheers! :thumb: