Targeting Multiple Movie Clips

Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to ActionScript so I would really appreciate
any help I can receive.
Right, I have a Flash file which contains a movie clip with
an instance called, 'contentHold_mc'. Inside this movie clip are 4
individual movie clips with instances entitled, 'content1_mc',
'content2_mc', 'content3_mc' and 'content4_mc'. I know these are
not the best names for instances, but this is just for simplicty's
sake. At present all movie clips run at the same time. I want them
to run sequentially. On the last frame of the instance,
'content1_mc', I want to stop the instance from playing and start
playing the instance, 'content2_mc'. On the final frame on
'content3_mc', I want to stop the instance from playing and start
playing the instance, 'content3_mc', and so on until 'content4_mc'
finishes playing. I have tried to use the tellTarget function
without success and anyway, I believe this is now deprecated.
Would anybody be able to provide me some guidance please as
to how I can achieve the previous using the 'dot' notation?
I have tried the using the code found at the bottom of this
message in the final frame of the movie clip instance that I want
to play first ('content1_mc'), however get a compiler error because
of the preceding two full stops '..'
Thank you in advance for any help I may receive with this
query.

Put a stop(); command at the first frame of each of the
clips. On the last frame of the first clip put:
stop();
_parent.contentHold_mc.content2_mc.play();
repeat as needed for each movie clip.
Tell the first clip to play.

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