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The Surfer In The Sea (Huntington Beach, 2020)

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Beach Huntington Beach, California, United States 2020
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About this clip

The relaxed, cinematic style evokes a sense of freedom and connection with nature. Ideal for documentaries, travel content, or nostalgic storytelling about beach culture and surfing.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for travel edits, documentary beach sequences, agency mood reels, brand films, or social cuts needing Huntington Beach surf culture with distant surfers waiting beyond the shore break.
Edit role
The short five-second runtime works as a cutaway, transition beat, or ocean texture between closer surfing shots in a beach sequence.
Visual details
Frames show blue-green ocean, a breaking wave, white shore foam, a straight horizon, and small distant surfers in dark wetsuits, with no recognizable faces or readable details.
Shot mechanics
Ground-level composition holds the horizon high, with white foam in the foreground, rolling surf in the midground, and distant water behind the wave line.

Tags

seasurfboardrelaxingglidesmoothsurfernaturehuntington BEACH californiacinematicintrostunningbusinessartamatuerb-roll

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
40 MB
Location
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Year filmed
2020
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

At Huntington Beach, a small distant surfer sits in blue-green water while a broad wave rises behind white shore foam.
This opening frame shows the surfer scale against the incoming wave and open ocean. (0:00)
At Huntington Beach, a distant surfer appears near the center of frame below a smooth green wave with textured blue water beyond.
This moment gives editors a centered ocean cutaway with a surfer waiting below the wave face. (0:01)
At Huntington Beach, a small distant surfer sits toward the right side as a low green wave stretches across the frame.
This frame shifts the surfer to the edge of the composition while keeping the wave as the main visual element. (0:02)
At Huntington Beach, the wave face rises in the midground and partly obscures a distant surfer near the left side of the water.
This frame shows the wave momentarily covering the surfer, useful as a natural transition beat. (0:03)

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