Sencing the frame of a movie clip on click

Hello.
I have a project where the user will enter a frame with a movie clip and stop. The movie clip will continuously play a looping animation until the user selects one one the navigation options. After an option is selected I need the main timeline to move to a new frame but I need the movieclip timeline to continue playing at the exact place it was at when option was selected. Is there anyway to do this.
As a side note I originally tried to work around the problem by staying at the same frame in the main time line and just loading movies on top of it. This was not a successful solution as it caused many headaches down the line.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

It's not entirely clear what you want. In what way will the movieclip continue to play if you move away from the frame it lives in? It cannot continue to do anything if you move away from it in the timeline. If you mean that upon returning to that frame you want it to continue from where it left off, then you will need to have a variable that you assign the movieclips currentFrame value to so that you can tell it to play from there.
If you want the movieclip to remain visible and playing, then if you dynamically load the movieclip that you want at that frame of the main timeline, it should remain in view regardless of where you move on the main timeline. The reason for this being that dynamically loaded content does not have a home on the timeline unless you provide one for it, such as loading into a manually planted empty movieclip.

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