# Stop and resume play of child mcs

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-and-resume-play-of-child-mcs/278332
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**Created:** [December 27, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-and-resume-play-of-child-mcs/278332 "2008-12-27T15:35:57Z")
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### Author: ![friezens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@friezens](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/friezens)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-and-resume-play-of-child-mcs/278332/1 "2008-12-27T15:35:57Z")

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so i need to make a play/pause button on my animation, i can use stop(); to stop the main timeline. i cna use intro.stop(); to stop a movieclip with the instance name intro that is placed on my timeline.

but can I stop every single movieclip (in all different levels) that are in my timeline?

if not, how can i stop movieclipA which is inside movieclipB which is on the main timeline?