# loadMovie is capricious

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-is-capricious/121426
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**Created:** [September 2, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-is-capricious/121426 "2004-09-02T19:38:05Z")
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### Author: ![jwhitmill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@jwhitmill](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jwhitmill)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-is-capricious/121426/1 "2004-09-02T19:38:05Z")

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I’m having very inconsistent results with loadMovie - one time it works, the next time it doesn’t, even though I’m doing things the same way.

In my latest farce, in a movie called home.swf I created an empty movie clip and placed an instance of it named dateTime on the stage. I then called a movie named digitalclock.swf with the statement:

```
loadMovie("digitalclockJeff.swf","dateTime");

```

It works perfectly.

Next I created another empty movie clip and placed an instance of it named sliders on the stage of the original movie, home.swf. I then called a movie named sliders01.swf with the statement:

```
loadMovie("sliders01.swf","sliders");

```

It doesn’t work at all.

Just to try to find the problem, I treid loading digitalclock.swf into the second movie clip with

```
loadMovie("digitalclockJeff.swf","sliders");

```

It works perfectly.

The problem would appear to lie with sliders01.swf, but I can’t see how. It’s a very simple movie where a picture frame slides down from the top and a picture slides into the picture frame from the side - 50 frames, 2 motion tweens, 2 layers - that’s it.

I don’t understand why this movie won’t load.