# MX Communication between movies
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-communication-between-movies/18195
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 14, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-communication-between-movies/18195 "2003-04-14T11:54:16Z")
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### Author:  [@Lmackenzie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Lmackenzie)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-communication-between-movies/18195/1 "2003-04-14T11:54:16Z")
I’ve got an html page with 2 different movies: ‘movie1.swf’ and ‘movie2.swf’. Is there a way that ‘movie1.swf’ can play to a certain frame and when it reaches that frame, can tell ‘movie2.swf’ to start playing? The thing is they are 2 separate swfs rather than 2 movie clips within the same swf.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-communication-between-movies/18195/2 "2003-04-14T12:39:51Z")
I think you have to use \_global variables to do that…I think [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) has a tut for that I think… try searching the forums and the tuts.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-communication-between-movies/18195/3 "2003-04-16T10:11:20Z")
would be to have an MC which loads both the swfs into it. That way you can have quite a lot of control i.e. checking which frame 1.swf is up to before triggering 2.swf
I have been doing it with
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“thingy”, 1);
thingy.loadMovie(“assets/1.swf”);
then you can load the second (and more ) MCs in as the first is playing
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“thingy”+N, N);
[thingy+N]loadMovie(“assets/”+N+".swf");