# Switching from one movieclip to another

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/switching-from-one-movieclip-to-another/283534>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 7, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/switching-from-one-movieclip-to-another/283534 "2009-03-07T17:39:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![freshrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/43a26b/32.png) [@freshrod](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/freshrod)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/switching-from-one-movieclip-to-another/283534/1 "2009-03-07T17:39:46Z")

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Greetings

I am trying to do something that, for all I know, should be pretty easy. Except…  
What should happen is that when the swf plays it plays through one movieclip, then, on the last frame, switches to another movieclip and plays. Simple, right?  
I have a movieclip for the screen (where the movieclips are displayed) and I place an instance of the first movieclip and give it an instance name. Then in the last frame of that clip I have the actionscript:

```auto

MovieClip(parent).home_mc.play();

```

‘home\_mc’ is the other movieclip instance name. I have also tried using frame labels like:

```auto

MovieClip(parent).gotoAndPlay("home")

```

…but that didn’t work either. That is what I’d really like to have anyway, since I want to have several movieclips at different points in the timeline and go to those frame labels by way of buttons.

Any ideas why? Here is a link to the fla if anyone wants to see it.  
[http://www.freshrod.com/content\_theater.zip](http://www.freshrod.com/content_theater.zip)

Thanks