# New to flash
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-to-flash/15083
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 10, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-to-flash/15083 "2003-03-10T19:17:36Z")
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### Author:  [@cecilia22](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cecilia22)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-to-flash/15083/1 "2003-03-10T19:17:36Z")
I am trying to figure this out: I have a movie symbol that I want the whole scene to “wait for” before continuing to play the scene. I was just adding emtpy frames in there like crazy so that the frames in the ‘mother’ scene would take just as long as the movie clip symbol before continuing with the rest of the scene. But this is pretty ridiculously unpractical, I know there must be some action script I could be able to use on the movie clip to tell it to ‘stop the rest of the movie’ until clip is done playing… anyone able to explain this to me?
thanks
ces
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-to-flash/15083/2 "2003-03-10T21:27:10Z")
Stop() at where you launch your movie clip and gotoAndPlay(next frame) at the end of the clip.