# Loading an image into a Movie Clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-image-into-a-movie-clip/160644>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 28, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-image-into-a-movie-clip/160644 "2005-08-28T02:09:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![RavenStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@RavenStorm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RavenStorm)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-image-into-a-movie-clip/160644/1 "2005-08-28T02:09:51Z")

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How? This is what I have now and it doesn’t work:

\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“testimage”, 1); \ New Movie Clip  
loadMovie(test.image1name, “testimage”); \ test.image1name = “image-4.jpg”, the url of an image  
testimage.\_width = 350; \ Properties for the Movie Clip  
testimage.\_height = 150;\ Properties for the Movie Clip  
testimage.\_x = 50; \ Properties for the Movie Clip  
testimage.\_y = 50; \ Properties for the Movie Clip

Ugh. I’m tired and this is tiring me. Can somebody help me?

EDIT: Weird. When I traced “testimage.\_width”, it returned 0. But when I traced “testimage.\_x”, it returned 50 as it should. Huh?

Thanks,  
-Raven~Storm.