WESTMINSTER COLORADO-2015: The Smoke Coming Out Of Some Industries Ends Up
About this clip
This vintage home movie captures industrial smoke rising from factories in Westminster, Colorado. The thick plumes billow into the sky, illustrating pollution and environmental impact in a midwestern industrial zone. This raw, unfiltered footage offers a nostalgic yet critical look at urban development and industrial activity. Ideal for documentaries, environmental studies, or historical content exploring 2010s American industry and air quality concerns.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Documentary editors, environmental producers, agency researchers, and social cut makers can use this Westminster, Colorado clip to show industrial emissions and urban air quality in a 2015 American city context.
- Edit role
- The short runtime works as a cutaway, issue beat, or transition between wider environmental coverage and closer reporting on pollution, industry, or city infrastructure.
- Visual details
- A brick and glass industrial building sits beside snowy ground while a thick gray smoke plume rises behind it into a pale blue sky, with utility poles and low structures in the distance and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 46 MB
- Location
- Westminster, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- Feb 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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