Frame by frame animation not looping

Hello,
This seems so simple but it's not working - I have two frames I want to continuously loop, they are of a person walking. I have put sym.play(0); at the end of the symbol timeline, but it is not looping. The sym.play(0); command is definitely working as I tested it with another transition in the same symbol, and this did loop. Can you not loop frame by frame animation?
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers

Hi Darrell
Thanks for your reply, sorry can't really post it as it's a commercial project. They are 2 separate images, which become visible / hidden alternately to show each one after the other.
I've sort of solved my problem by just repeating this manually for now but would still be interested to know if looping is possible - however appreciate this may be tricky without the file.
Cheers
Sarah

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