# Loading movies using addChild

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**Created:** [August 18, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movies-using-addchild/268749 "2008-08-18T12:50:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-movies-using-addchild/268749/1 "2008-08-18T12:50:05Z")

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Like most people who are new to as3 I’m finding some of the things I found straight-forward in as2 a trifle baffling.  
Due to inheriting a website written in as2 and wanting to utilise the new spectrum analyzer of as3 I have created a ‘holder’ flash file called holderShape.fla that can be used to load two different movies into it.  
The code I’m using appears to work perfectly when I test the movie, however when uploaded to my isp the second loaded movie isn’t following on and playing after the first has finished.  
I have attached three test files, the ‘holder’ [as3] and the two loaded movies [both as2], that contain the code and structure that my actual files do so that you helpful people can hopefully see where I’m going wrong.  
But basically I have two keyframes in the ‘holder’ flash file over three layers. A frame labels layer, an actions layer and the content layer where I keep blank movie clips to load the external swf’s into.  
The code on the first key frame is:  
stop();  
var loadit = new Loader();  
loadit.load(new URLRequest(“introCircle.swf”));  
intro.addChild(loadit);

And on the second:  
stop();  
var loadit2 = new Loader();  
loadit2.load(new URLRequest(“mainSquare.swf”));  
main.addChild(loadit2);

In the movie introCircle (the first loaded movie) I have code on the last frame:  
stop();  
\_parent.\_parent.\_parent.gotoAndPlay(“main”);

which tells the ‘host’ flash file to move to the second keyframe and ergo the second loaded movie.  
please help!