# Movie Clips within Movie Clips question?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-within-movie-clips-question/304781>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 13, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-within-movie-clips-question/304781 "2010-02-13T20:09:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![OxideAlloy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bcef8e/32.png) [@OxideAlloy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/OxideAlloy)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-within-movie-clips-question/304781/1 "2010-02-13T20:09:42Z")

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We have a movieclip mc1 with another movieclip mc2 inside of it. We are creating an instance of mc1 on the stage through actionscript and need to be able to reference mc2. We have tried various methods to do this but had no success. Is this even possible? If not is there another way to do this?