# Movie clips/sound

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-sound/625
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 24, 2002, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-sound/625 "2002-07-24T08:46:13Z")
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### Author: ![Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cheese](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Cheese)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2002, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-sound/625/1 "2002-07-24T08:46:13Z")

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Hi there

I have a play and stop button you click play and the music plays and stop if you want to stop it but i also have two movie clips which i want to animate when you click play and stop when you click the stop button. How do i do this

Any help will be greatly appreciated

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: [July 24, 2002, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-sound/625/2 "2002-07-24T09:37:15Z")

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gotoAndPlay\_rooot.yourmovieclip.

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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: [July 24, 2002, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-sound/625/3 "2002-07-24T10:48:13Z")

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Assuming that the movie clip isn’t on frame 1 when it’s playing and is on frame 1 when it’s stopped you might try

if (mcInstance.\_currentFrame!=1) {  
mcInstance.gotoAndStop(1)  
} else {  
mcInstance.play()  
}