# Tell movie clip to play

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-movie-clip-to-play/314253
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 22, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-movie-clip-to-play/314253 "2010-09-22T21:31:42Z")
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### Author: ![KateH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@KateH](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/KateH)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-movie-clip-to-play/314253/1 "2010-09-22T21:31:42Z")

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I have a movie clip on my stage. I want a button to tell the movie to play  
The instance of the movie clip is called holder\_mc. What is the action script to tell the holder\_mc to play.

Thanks,  
Kate