[F8] on handler or not?

I am trying to keep my main timeline short by placing my movies frame by frame and I wanted to put a action on the last part of each movie making the main time line move onto frame 2 , 3 etc etc.

Inside movie 1 I put

gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", 2);

Does this need to be on some kind of handler?
I have a stop action on each frame of the main time line.

Thanks

Quote from Flash help (loosely quoted...): "You can only use the scene parameter in the root timeline, not in a movie clip's timeline"

Try labeling each frame something and then using _parent.gotoAndPlay("Clip1"); As far as I know you can't start a name with a number, so don't try just labeling them 1, 2, 3, etc. Make it Clip1 or something like that.