How to have a movie clip's timeline play while main timeline is stopped.

Hi,

I am working on a game using HTML5 Canvas in Animate CC.

I want a movie clip's timeline to continuously loop while the main timeline is stopped. In other words, I have a animation of a girl and I want her eyes to blink continuously until the user clicks the "Play" button. Once they hit the Play button, I want the main timeline animation to begin.

I have tried putting a [this.stop();] on frame 1 of the main timeline, but when I test in browser, this stops ALL animation including the movie clip's.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!