Trying to access movie clip

I have a movie clip on Scene1 called "movieclip1." Inside "movieclip1" there is a label of "fadein," which underneath the label has the movie clip fadeing in. Then I have a label called "fadeout," which has the movie clip fading out.
What I want to do is get the coding or action script to make it so when I click on "portfolios_btn" (on scene1) it runs what is under my label "fadein" inside the movie clip "movieclip1."
Then, when I roll off the movie clip I want it to go and play whats under the "fadeout" label.
This "movieclip1" is a drop down menu that fades in when I click on the portfolios_btn and fades out when I roll off the movieclip.

I have another issue.
Here is the layout.
Scene1 > movieclip1 > movieclip2
So i am in "movieclip2", which is inside "movieclip1."
Inside movieclip2 I have "button1_btn."
What I want to happen is when I click on "button1_btn" I want it to play everything under label "label1," which is located on Scene1.
How do I reference this to play a label in Scene1?????

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