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Download the free low-res preview to test in your editThe Lonely Balloon in Front of the Store (Westminster, 2015)
About this clip
A young child stands alone in front of a storefront in Westminster, Colorado, holding a single balloon that drifts slightly in the breeze. Shot on digital home video in 2015, this quiet moment captures a sense of solitude and innocence against a backdrop of commercial buildings. The scene evokes a contemplative, cinematic mood with natural lighting and candid framing. This amateur footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into everyday life, ideal for storytelling, emotional narratives, or modern Americana projects.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for documentary, news, brand film, or social edits needing a 2015 suburban Colorado storefront with visible H&R Block signage and a lone green balloon at the window line.
- Edit role
- The 6-second clip works as a short cutaway or insert between wider retail-strip coverage and a story beat about taxes, errands, childhood, or everyday commercial spaces.
- Visual details
- Frames show a beige strip-mall facade, brick columns, glass storefront windows, bright H&R Block signs, posters in the windows, and a single green balloon, with no clearly visible people in the sampled frames.
- Shot mechanics
- Ground-level camera view holds a storefront composition with signage high in frame, brick columns and windows across the midground, and sidewalk details at the lower edge.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 41 MB
- Location
- Westminster, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- Feb 2015
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.
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