Keeping a loaded movie in scene when changing frame...

[Motty99]

create an empty movie...load it with the following..
loadMovie ("openpic.swf", _root.holder_mc);

how do I keep this movie on stage, without reloading, if I go to another frame?...I still have the holder_mc on the stage...

Would the problem with it disappearing be that it is masked?

[cancerinform]

You maintain the movieclip to load the movie in all frames, but when you don't want to see it you set alpha of the movieclip to 0.

[Motty99]

I can load the movie without a mask, and it will show in the next frame, as long as I have the empty clip on stage...but if I mask it, the clip disappears on the next frame..

[VI Knight]

Is the mask layer extended to the next frame?

[Motty99]

It does extend to the next frame...in fact, I'm just gotoAndStop ing at the next frame...