HUNTINGTON BEACH CALIFORNIA-2020: Dark Beach Sea Ship Sand Night Lights Water
About this clip
A dark, atmospheric night scene at Huntington Beach, California in 2020, captured on home movie film. The clip shows a quiet shoreline with gentle waves lapping against the sand, distant ship lights glowing on the horizon, and scattered ambient lights reflecting on the water. The footage has a blurry, handheld quality, evoking a sense of mystery and solitude. This raw, unfiltered moment captures the quiet beauty of the coast at night, with a subtle tension in the stillness. Ideal for mood-driven projects, ambient visuals, or nostalgic coastal storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Fits documentary, travel edit, agency mood reel, brand film, or social cut needing a dark Huntington Beach shoreline with distant offshore lights and no visible people.
- Edit role
- Works as a short night transition, ambient insert, or quiet closer between brighter beach scenes, with the six-second runtime suited to a mood beat rather than detailed action.
- Visual details
- Dark sand fills the foreground, low ocean water sits in the midground, and a lit offshore structure glows on the horizon under a deep red and blue night sky with no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 63 MB
- Location
- Huntington Beach, California, United States
- Year filmed
- 2020
- Published
- Jan 2020
Still Frames From This Clip
3 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 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.