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CRESTED BUTTE COLORADO-2015: The Dawn Even In A Snowy Place Always Surprises

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Crested Butte, Colorado, United States 2015
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About this clip

This vintage home movie captures a quiet, snowy dawn in Crested Butte, Colorado. A lone figure walks through a frost-covered landscape as the first light of day breaks over snow-laden trees and distant peaks. The crisp winter air and stillness evoke a sense of peaceful surprise, highlighting nature’s quiet beauty. This authentic Super 8 footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into a serene mountain morning, perfect for documentaries, travel features, or winter-themed storytelling.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Fits a winter travel edit, Colorado documentary, agency mood reel, brand film, or social cut needing a snowy Crested Butte valley view under hard sun and heavy cloud.
Edit role
Use this six-second clip as an opener, atmospheric cutaway, transition, or quiet beat between scenes about winter roads, mountain towns, or rural Colorado snow.
Visual details
Snow covers the foreground field, fence posts and a gate sit near the camera, dark mountain ridges and a small valley settlement fill the background, and bright sun breaks through thick clouds with lens flare.

Tags

naturesnowdawnpeoplecoldbeautysurprisesnowyplacesurprisescrested butte colorado2015b-rollkindamateurintroductionbusinessnewcute

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
41 MB
Location
Crested Butte, 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.

A snowy field in Crested Butte, Colorado with fence posts in the foreground, a dark mountain ridge beyond the valley, bright sun through clouds, and no visible people.
This opening frame gives buyers a wide winter valley view with foreground fence detail and hard backlight. (0:00)
The Crested Butte winter view holds on snowfields, a low fence line, dark ridges, and sun glare breaking through a gap in the cloud cover, with no visible people.
This frame shows the same broad valley composition with strong cloud contrast and a clear snow foreground. (0:01)

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