# Placing Actionscript Movie Clip Inside a Movie Clip Symbol

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-actionscript-movie-clip-inside-a-movie-clip-symbol/253130>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 27, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-actionscript-movie-clip-inside-a-movie-clip-symbol/253130 "2008-02-27T14:50:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![rooterman42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rooterman42](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rooterman42)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-actionscript-movie-clip-inside-a-movie-clip-symbol/253130/1 "2008-02-27T14:50:49Z")

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Hi,

I’m loading an external image into an empty actionscript movie clip (holder1) using MovieClipLoader(); on frame one of my movie and is invisible. Then when the movie plays, there is an empty movie clip symbol (image1\_mc) that is placed manually on the stage within another movie clip symbol (flash\_mc), and is also on a bottom layer of a mask layer which is animated. Is it possible to place “holder1” inside of “image1\_mc” so that I can treat it as if it were an embedded image? In other words, have the image in “holder1” inside of the manually placed movie clip symbol “image1\_mc” so that I can use it like a regular symbol on the stage?

Thanks,

rm