# Play(); action won't work

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-action-wont-work/232758
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**Created:** [July 17, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-action-wont-work/232758 "2007-07-17T15:36:52Z")
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### Author: ![gwh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gwh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gwh)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-action-wont-work/232758/1 "2007-07-17T15:36:52Z")

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Hi everyone,

I have a very simple question - I think.

I have a movieclip on the main timeline called “intro\_mc”. Within this movieclip is another movieclip called “corpcat\_mc”. There are several instances of corpcat\_mc on different layers which animate at different times.

I’ve put a stop action on the first and last frames of intro\_mc, then on frame 1 of the main timeline I tried to add some actionscript that will tell intro\_mc to play. The actionscript is as follows:

this.intro\_mc.play();

Problem is it doesn’t play when I test it. Does anyone know why?

Appreciate any help.