# Unload from Movie Clip - help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-from-movie-clip-help/21900
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 27, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-from-movie-clip-help/21900 "2003-05-27T20:35:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Chop](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Chop)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-from-movie-clip-help/21900/1 "2003-05-27T20:35:00Z")
I want to unload from a movie clip - I’ve load an external .swf file into a movie clip, with an event handler (button) I want to unload the loaded the movie and then move on to a frame number in the main time line .root and play.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-from-movie-clip-help/21900/2 "2003-05-27T20:49:10Z")
```auto
someMovieClip.unloadMovie();
_root.gotoAndPlay(someFrame);
```
??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-from-movie-clip-help/21900/3 "2003-05-27T20:53:14Z")
kax
Thanks - ‘some’ is the name of the movie clip… that I’ve given it ?
Cheers Andy
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-from-movie-clip-help/21900/4 "2003-05-27T20:55:12Z")
yeah…
replace someMovieClip with the instance name of your movieclip and someFrame with the frame number or frame label. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-from-movie-clip-help/21900/5 "2003-05-27T20:58:42Z")
Cheers kak… I will go and play…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-from-movie-clip-help/21900/6 "2003-05-27T21:00:20Z")
good luck. :beam: