Brown & White Butterfly Sleeping on a Green Leaf
About this clip
A close-up vintage film clip from 2019 showing a brown and white butterfly resting peacefully on a vibrant green leaf in a natural outdoor setting in Colorado. The footage captures the delicate details of the butterfly’s wings and the leaf’s texture, rendered in soft, grainy film with a nostalgic, analog aesthetic. The scene evokes calmness and the quiet beauty of nature, ideal for nature documentaries, environmental content, or vintage-themed projects.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for wildlife documentary cutaways, environmental inserts, brand films, and social edits needing a close Colorado nature detail with a butterfly resting on green foliage.
- Edit role
- Works as a 28-second cutaway, quiet transition, or texture beat between broader outdoor scenes, with enough runtime for a slow voiceover pause or observational nature moment.
- Visual details
- A brown butterfly with white and warm orange wing markings rests open-winged on a large green leaf, surrounded by dense foliage, hard sun patches, dark shadows, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 1920 × 1080
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 28s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 46 MB
- Location
- Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2019
- Published
- Oct 2019
Still Frames From This Clip
2 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant download of the HD 1080p master with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.