# loadMovie question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-question/13349>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 12, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-question/13349 "2003-02-12T00:16:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![NJusticeForAll2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@NJusticeForAll2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NJusticeForAll2)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-question/13349/1 "2003-02-12T00:16:34Z")

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Does anybody know how to get an external movie into an swf (maybe with loadMovie or loadMovieNum) and than affect that movie with a play button, and a stop button, and a pause button) from within the file that the loadMovie was thrown into? Kind of like it happens on [http://www.kodak.com//US/plugins/flash/en/corp/features/sleepingGiants/meta.swf](http://www.kodak.com//US/plugins/flash/en/corp/features/sleepingGiants/meta.swf)

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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 13, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-question/13349/2 "2003-02-13T05:27:06Z")

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You can read this tutorial, it talks about loadmovie.

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full\_site.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm)

As for the playing and stoping, usually if you add \_root to your actions, it would effect the main movie since the loaded swf is now part of the main movie and \_root will now target the main movie’s timeline.

I hope I didn’t confuse you, I’m not good at explaning things. 😏

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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 13, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-question/13349/3 "2003-02-13T05:32:54Z")

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No… You actually clarified some things… Thanx. 🙂