# Loading movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-clips/13191>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 10, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-clips/13191 "2003-02-10T03:22:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![orangeptrinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@orangeptrinh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/orangeptrinh)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-clips/13191/1 "2003-02-10T03:22:48Z")

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Hey…Can someone give me the code to load movie clips in a movie at a specific location??? any help is appreciated. Thank you!!!

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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:** [February 10, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-clips/13191/2 "2003-02-10T03:27:21Z")

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Howdy…

Create a new movie…  
Create a movieclip and place it to the desired location, give an instance name of ‘holder’…  
Use this script to load an external SWF file into the holder…  
\_level0.holder.loadMovie(“youExternal.SWF”);

Simple, eh??? 🙂

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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:** [February 10, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-clips/13191/3 "2003-02-10T03:37:27Z")

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does the holder movie clip have to be blank or …???

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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:** [February 10, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-clips/13191/4 "2003-02-10T03:48:14Z")

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As it is said, that movieclip is merely an empty holder where you can feed whatever you want… It won’t make any difference whether you create an empty movieclip for it or you put a big square inside of it… Whatever in it will be replaced with your loaded external SWF file… 😃