# Movie clip inside a movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-inside-a-movie-clip/28890>\
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**Created:** [August 19, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-inside-a-movie-clip/28890 "2003-08-19T21:43:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![tommy03](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@tommy03](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tommy03)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-inside-a-movie-clip/28890/1 "2003-08-19T21:43:32Z")

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hi,

I’ve loaded a movie clip into my main movie.  
Inside that movie clip there is another movie clip.  
I want to load another external file into the second movie clip but it wont load for some reason.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

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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:** [August 19, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-inside-a-movie-clip/28890/2 "2003-08-19T21:48:01Z")

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Code you are using to achieve this is what exactly?

Viru.

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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:** [August 20, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-inside-a-movie-clip/28890/3 "2003-08-20T01:31:55Z")

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If you load it on press of a button, place this on the button:  
[AS]  
on(release){  
\_root.main.inside.loadMovie(“amovie.swf”)  
}  
[/AS]

or, if on a frame:  
[AS]  
\_root.main.inside.loadMovie(“amovie.swf”)  
[/AS]

Make sure both the movieclips have instance names. In this example, ‘main’ and ‘inside’ are the twoi instance names of the two movies, inside in main and main on the main timeline.