Visible children with invisible parents

Hi all, I’ve looked but can’t find this anywhere.

This may well just be because it can’t be done but here goes.

Does anyone know of a way that I can make a MoviecClip “visible=false” whilst stopping just one of its children’s, children’s, children…etc from also going invisible.

I am aware that it can be done by setting them all individually but this will take a lot of code (and I like tidy code…and I’m lazy), and I am reluctant to use a loop as it will interrupt the animation that is going on at the time.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

James