# Using elements not defined in first frame of a movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-elements-not-defined-in-first-frame-of-a-movieclip/280643>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 29, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-elements-not-defined-in-first-frame-of-a-movieclip/280643 "2009-01-29T21:35:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![lenny](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/lenny/32/942_2.png) [@lenny](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lenny)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-elements-not-defined-in-first-frame-of-a-movieclip/280643/1 "2009-01-29T21:35:24Z")

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Hi all 🙂

I’ve finally made the leap in to AS3 - it seems much nicer and easier than any of its predecessors but I’m still getting stuck on the odd thing.

This is something I haven’t been able to resolve with Google:

I have a movieclip with an instance name “myMC”. On the first frame inside myMC I have another movieclip called “point”. On the second frame inside myMC I have a movieclip with instance name “smallBox”.

This works:  
myMC.point.transform.colorTransform = c;

This does not:  
myMC.smallBox.transform.colorTransform = c;

Do I need to do something to indicate I’m working on frame 2?

Ta,  
lenny