# Playing Movie Clips after pressing a button

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movie-clips-after-pressing-a-button/199124>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 31, 2006, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movie-clips-after-pressing-a-button/199124 "2006-08-31T09:14:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhawks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jhawks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jhawks)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movie-clips-after-pressing-a-button/199124/1 "2006-08-31T09:14:35Z")

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I just tried to search this problem in the tutorials in this site but to no avail. Unless I missed something, so I decided to try here.

I have a movie clip I want to play after pressing a button (e.g on release). Does anyone know what the action script should look like?

Thanks in advance