# Loading an image into 2 separate movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-image-into-2-separate-movieclips/142409>\
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**Created:** [March 28, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-image-into-2-separate-movieclips/142409 "2005-03-28T18:14:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![renikm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@renikm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/renikm)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-image-into-2-separate-movieclips/142409/1 "2005-03-28T18:14:02Z")

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I was wondering if it was possible to load an image once, and put it into two different MCs.  
Here is the code i have. As you can see, the same image is loaded twice. The problem is that I think that if I duplicate the movieclip, it gets duplicated without the loaded image. Any ideas?

Thanks!

```auto
switch (choice) {

case 0 :
	this.blur.loadMovie("themes/01blur.jpg");
	this.blur2.loadMovie("themes/01blur.jpg");
	this.theme.loadMovie("themes/01base.jpg");
	current_color = '0x99FF99';
	break;
case 1 :
	this.blur.loadMovie("themes/02blur.jpg");
	this.blur2.loadMovie("themes/02blur.jpg");
	this.theme.loadMovie("themes/02base.jpg");
	current_color = '0xFF99FF';
	break;
}

```