# Loading movie problem

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-problem/16718
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 27, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-problem/16718 "2003-03-27T18:12:38Z")
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### Author: ![felipegm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@felipegm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/felipegm)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-problem/16718/1 "2003-03-27T18:12:38Z")

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I hope I can explain my problem properly.

I have three movies: main movie, movie 1 and movie 2  
movie 1 will load on main movie. Later movie 1 will load movie 2 on main movie, but I want movie 1 to wait until movie 2 is completly loaded. Movie 1 will work like a door that closes before the contents of the page until the next content is loaded, so it will open again and show movie 2.

Thanks in advance

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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: [March 27, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-problem/16718/2 "2003-03-27T19:04:14Z")

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what you need is a preloader for the external .swf right? if so,  
this will definitely help:  
[http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/intermediate/multi\_preloader/index.shtml](http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/intermediate/multi_preloader/index.shtml)