# Stopping movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-movie-clips/257669>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 16, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-movie-clips/257669 "2008-04-16T07:23:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![luka66\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@luka66\_6](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/luka66_6)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-movie-clips/257669/1 "2008-04-16T07:23:55Z")

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Hi

I have a problem stopping movie clips in flash. I have two move clips on main time line. One name for script is ball other is ball1. They are two different movie clip simbols they are not just different instances. If i put stop(); on the first frame it stops both of them. How do i stop only one. I tried:

ball.stop();

and

ball.addEventListener(Event:ENTER\_FRAME, stop\_ball)  
function stop\_ball(evt:Event):void {  
stop();  
}

and

ball.addEventListener(Event:ENTER\_FRAME, stop\_ball)  
function stop\_ball(evt:Event):void {  
ball.stop();  
}

It does not work. What am i doing wrong? Please i need some advice. Tnx in advance.