# Referring to other movie clips inside a movie clip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referring-to-other-movie-clips-inside-a-movie-clip/296913
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 22, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referring-to-other-movie-clips-inside-a-movie-clip/296913 "2009-09-22T17:41:09Z")
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### Author: ![Danief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Danief](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Danief)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referring-to-other-movie-clips-inside-a-movie-clip/296913/1 "2009-09-22T17:41:09Z")

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Okay, SO i have a movie clip, and to stop it i use

```auto
stop();

```

and to stop the main timeline I use

```auto
_root.stop();

```

and if I’m on the main timeline and i want to stop a movie clip i use

```auto
movieclipname.stop();

```

But if I’m already in a movieclip, and i need to control another movie clip, or a movie clip on the main timeline, how can do that?