# Loading movie with loadMovie tut

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-with-loadmovie-tut/6964>\
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**Created:** [October 21, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-with-loadmovie-tut/6964 "2002-10-21T02:56:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomcrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tomcrom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tomcrom)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-with-loadmovie-tut/6964/1 "2002-10-21T02:56:36Z")

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Hi there!

I’ve just been through the following tut ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/loading.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/loading.asp)) and decided to give it a go with a test website I’m working on…

The movie I’m loading in is actually 2 frames long, and upon loading it in, I want to goto the second frame…

I thought a simple moviename.gotoAndStop(2); would do it, but alas, does not work!!!

Could someone please help me?

Thanks,  
tomcrom

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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:** [October 21, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movie-with-loadmovie-tut/6964/2 "2002-10-21T02:58:28Z")

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Um, if you want it to go to the second frame first, why not put that frame first?

And to call a gotoAndPlay function you will have to do that in the movie itself.

Possible a blank first frame (changing your 1 frame to frame 2 and your 2nd frame to frame 3) with a gotoAndPlay(3) action on the frame.