# Problem with external movieclips

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-external-movieclips/138341
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 22, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-external-movieclips/138341 "2005-02-22T00:13:27Z")
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### Author: ![stitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@stitch](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stitch)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-external-movieclips/138341/1 "2005-02-22T00:13:27Z")

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Hi peeps,

i have the following problem,

i have three movieholders on my main stage.  
loading the external movies when people visit the site is no problem.  
one of the external movies is a menu with the button i want to load a new external movie in one of the other movieholders but that doesnt work how can i do this or do someone have an example ??

names movieholders:

movieHolder  
movieholderMenu  
movieholderNavigation

button in movieholdermenu has following actionscript:

loadMovie(“test.swf”, “movieholderNavigation”);  
stop();

if someone can help me txs alot :azn: because im a little stuck now with my site.

i decided to use those three movieholders, because if i put everything in my main movie i have a very big swf file