loadmovie from _root versus movieclip??

Hi there!

I have a MC on stage named 'clip' that has this code ...

Code:

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onClipEvent(load) {
        this.loadMovie("image.jpg");
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
        trace("size = " + getBytesLoaded());
}

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This traces the bytesize of 'image.jpg' but the image is not visible??

If instead _root loads the image into 'clip' ..
clip.loadMovie("image.jpg");
.. the image is visible and off course traces the same filesize.

I find this very odd! Does anybody have a clue why this happens... ?
//pod