# Trouble with loadMovieNum

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-loadmovienum/52419>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 23, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-loadmovienum/52419 "2004-05-23T20:13:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![newbie\_geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d9b06d/32.png) [@newbie\_geek](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/newbie_geek)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-loadmovienum/52419/1 "2004-05-23T20:13:31Z")

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Hey guys,

Looks like I am having some trouble with loaded movies.

Specifically, I can get a movie loaded using loadMovieNum no problem. But then I cant get the loaded movie to affect the movie that it was loaded into.

For example, I have parent.swf, which loads child.swf. That part is fine. Then a button in child.swf tries to use “\_parent.gotoandstop(5)” to get the parent.swf to go to frame 5, obviously. But that does not work.

I have attached the source fla’s if you needed to take a closer look at them.

Thanks