# Pause a movie clip that is in an external swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-a-movie-clip-that-is-in-an-external-swf/199745>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 5, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-a-movie-clip-that-is-in-an-external-swf/199745 "2006-09-05T17:16:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![njoay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@njoay](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/njoay)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-a-movie-clip-that-is-in-an-external-swf/199745/1 "2006-09-05T17:16:48Z")

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Hello everyone,

Besides using Behaviors, is there a way to pause a movie clip that is in an external swf loaded from the main swf’s root timeline? In my main (swf’s) timeline, I load an external swf via: loadMovie (“movie.swf”, movie);

In my main swf and timeline, I have a pause button to pause and unpause the contents of the main movie. I would like to be able to pause and unpause the movie.swf as well as the movie clips in movie.swf.

I would like to know if this can be done w/o me having to put a separate pause button in each of my separate swf’s. Please let me know if this can be done and help with the AS would be great as well!

Thank you