WESTMINSTER COLORADO-2015: Animals Swimming on a Frozen Lake in Winter
About this clip
A young boy in a red jacket stands on a frozen lake in Westminster, Colorado, during winter 2015, as animals swim nearby in the icy water. This home movie captures a rare and charming moment of nature and childhood wonder. The scene blends quiet stillness with gentle movement, evoking nostalgia and warmth. This vintage home movie footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about winter life and animal behavior in cold climates.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for documentary, wildlife, winter lifestyle, or local Colorado edits needing animals moving through icy lake water with a quiet residential shoreline in view.
- Edit role
- Works as a short cutaway or transitional beat between broader winter lake coverage and closer animal behavior shots, with only a few seconds of slow movement across ice and water.
- Visual details
- Wide frames show small dark animals swimming near an open strip of water beside pale frozen lake ice, with docks, shoreline structures, bare trees, and low winter light in the background, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 44 MB
- Location
- Westminster, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- Jan 2015
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 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.