# Trying to load a movie clip from a child, to the main timeline

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**Created:** [November 25, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trying-to-load-a-movie-clip-from-a-child-to-the-main-timeline/129582 "2004-11-25T08:12:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![electricwarrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@electricwarrior](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/electricwarrior)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trying-to-load-a-movie-clip-from-a-child-to-the-main-timeline/129582/1 "2004-11-25T08:12:44Z")

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seems so simple.  
I’m just trying to load a movie clip into an empty clip.

here’s my code…

loadMovie("\_root.portalStage1.\_global.chosenPic", “\_root.printClip”);

\_root.portalStage1 is the container  
that holds the child swf (I tried adding “.swfname” after the container name, but that didn’t work either)

\_global.chosenPic  
contains the name of the movie clip I want to load

\_root.printClip is the empty movie clip I’m trying to fill  
with “\_global.chosenPic”

all this…to make a print button work…  
print function really sucks in flash mx…  
but that’s another thread…