# Preloading external movies in a preloader

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-movies-in-a-preloader/8147>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 14, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-movies-in-a-preloader/8147 "2002-11-14T19:53:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Furious5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bb73d2/32.png) [@Furious5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Furious5)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-movies-in-a-preloader/8147/1 "2002-11-14T19:53:46Z")

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I’ve been playing around with Flash and ASP and have now got ASP to return values in to Flash.

I’m currently playing around with a site, that has a main movie clip, which loads in external movies in to an empty movie clip. In particular I want a news feed to be visible once my site has loaded.

Currently I have to wait for the preloader to load and then, for the main movie to load the external movie. So the user is waiting twice.

What I want to do is load the external movie, whilst the preloader is loading.

Does anyone know how I can go about doing this?