# unLoadMovie

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unloadmovie/150807
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 10, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unloadmovie/150807 "2005-06-10T15:26:57Z")
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### Author: ![pete\_zahut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pete\_zahut](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pete_zahut)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unloadmovie/150807/1 "2005-06-10T15:26:57Z")

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In my root swf I have an empty movieclip that loads an external swf, this works perfectly.

But after some events it has to be “unloaded”.

But it doesn’t work if I use: \_root.mc\_game.unloadMovie();

the mc\_game MC is the MC were it is loaded into… very strange?

Thanks for your help