Resize imported images

Can’t figure this out.

Is it possible to anyway resize an image after it has been loaded into a moviClip through loadmovie ?

Can’t get the code to work. Say somepicture.jpg is a 800 x 600 jpg.

Ex.

loadMovie(“somepicture.jpg”,MCfoo);
MCfoo._width=100;
MCfoo.height=100;