# Pausing Movie Clips

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-movie-clips/36585
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 28, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-movie-clips/36585 "2003-11-28T17:20:46Z")
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### Author: ![Kass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@Kass](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kass)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-movie-clips/36585/1 "2003-11-28T17:20:46Z")

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It there a way i can pause the animation in one movie cilp until another movie cilp has loaded

this is what it want to do:  
the firts movie clip is loaded into the main stage the you hit a button, the animation starts… half way through it pauses, then loads another movie into a diffrent container, it waits for the second movie to be full load the finishes the animation…

i can do everything above execpt get it to pause utill the second clip is loaded