# Targetting attached movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targetting-attached-movieclips/241456>\
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**Created:** [October 14, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targetting-attached-movieclips/241456 "2007-10-14T11:04:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![aveceva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@aveceva](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aveceva)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targetting-attached-movieclips/241456/1 "2007-10-14T11:04:07Z")

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Hey guys,

I did a search on the forums and found 2 threads that were relevant but didn’t quite get what i wanted out of them.

I’ve loaded a movieclip using attachMovie(); and ive put it into an empty movie clip (as you would with external MC’s)

So my AS reads:

attachMovie("identifiername,“newname”,“emptymovieclip”);

My question is how i will go about targetting the loaded movieclip and having it play a certain frame.

I tried:

\_root.emptymovieclip.gotoAndPlay(2);

and

\_root.attachMovie(“box”,“box”,“holder”).gotoAndPlay(2);

(stab in the dark :P).

Thanks in advanced guys.