# Why doesnt this work?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work/96885
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 15, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work/96885 "2003-12-15T01:59:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Troll\_axethrowe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Troll_axethrowe)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work/96885/1 "2003-12-15T01:59:35Z")
Ok so i have a guys head, and at a certain fraim i want his mouth to play. So in the AS of the frame i put head.mouth.play(). It doest work why not? the instances for that frame are named head and mouth so it should be working, but its not. Can anyone help me out.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work/96885/2 "2003-12-15T02:37:57Z")
Try
\_root.mouth.play()
or similar.
I don’t have structure of your frames and movies.
And cause of that I can’t garanty this will help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work/96885/3 "2003-12-15T02:44:35Z")
i post a new thread cause i cant figure out how to attach files in this