Playing movie clips sequentially

I have 2 movie clips that I want to play one after another.
For instance, movie clip 1 should display an animation then movie
clip 2 comes into play after clip 1's animation is over. I placed
each clip on a separate layer in the main timeline. However, when I
placed clip 1 in frame one (leaving frame 2 empty for clip 1 layer)
and clip 2 in frame 2 (leaving frame 1 empty), both animations
don't display accurately. Please advise, thanks

Put both clips in frame 1 on the main timeline. Within each
movie clip, place a stop() script on the first frame. At the end of
movie clip 1 (the last frame), you can say _parent.movieclip2.goto
AndPlay ("some label") or gotoAndPlay (2). Depending on what else
is going on, this is simple enough. Make sure on the main timeline
that you add another layer called actions and put an action like
mocieclip1.gotoAndPlay ("some label name") or gotoAndPlay (2). If
you have it scripted to go to and play frame 2, make sure each
movie clip has a blank keyframe for their first frame.
I made a little example at
http://www.shan-dysigns.com/flashexamples/boxes.fla

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