WESTMINSTER COLORADO-2015: Exposure Of Minerals Extracted From The Earth
About this clip
This vintage home movie captures a close-up view of minerals extracted from the earth in Westminster, Colorado. The footage highlights the natural textures and crystalline structures of raw minerals, emphasizing their purity and geological beauty. With a soft, analog aesthetic and subtle color grading, this clip evokes a sense of discovery and connection to nature. Ideal for documentaries, educational content, or artistic projects exploring geology, earth sciences, or natural materials.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for geology documentaries, educational explainers, museum media, science class content, or abstract brand films needing a close view of raw minerals from Westminster, Colorado.
- Edit role
- The short six-second runtime works as a mineral texture insert, a cutaway during narration about extraction, or a transition beat between wider nature or science visuals.
- Visual details
- The frames show a dark gray, rough mineral fragment in extreme close-up on a pale background, with shallow focus, warm light, small tan deposits, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 43 MB
- Location
- Westminster, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- Jan 2015
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.
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