# Very new and stuck with animating Movie Clip in layer

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/very-new-and-stuck-with-animating-movie-clip-in-layer/300096>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 16, 2009, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/very-new-and-stuck-with-animating-movie-clip-in-layer/300096 "2009-11-16T07:45:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![DT101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c67d28/32.png) [@DT101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DT101)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/very-new-and-stuck-with-animating-movie-clip-in-layer/300096/1 "2009-11-16T07:45:18Z")

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I’m very new to Flash and after searching for a solution to looping a layer I understand this is best done by creating a new Movie Clip and creating the animation to be looped here.

I’ve done this, and then placed the Movie Clip into a layer on the Scene… but it just won’t play at all. It acts like I’ve placed just the symbol that shows in frame 1 of the Movie Clip and it remains static.

What am I missing?