Play 2 movie clips in sequence

Hello everyone,
I am looking for a script that can let me do this:
If I click a button - 1 movie clip will play X number of frames, and then after it completes, a 2nd movie clip will play X number of frames.
It is important that I can do this in one script in the button.
Otherwise the easy way to do it would be add a command at the end of the 1st movie clip. Which I don't want to do because I am trying to create a conditional event thingy...
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks

btn.onRelease=function(){
mc1.play();
mc1.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(this._currentframe==this._totalframes){
this.stop();
delete this.onEnterFrame;
mc2.play();
mc2.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(this._currentframe==this._totalframes){
delete this.onEnterFrame;
this.stop();

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