PLAYA DEL CARMEN MEXICO-2015: Giant Lizard on Beach Near Child
About this clip
A young child in a red shirt stands on a sandy beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in 2015, reaching toward a large lizard resting on the sand. The home movie footage captures a quiet, natural moment under bright sunlight, with scattered leaves and tropical vegetation in the background. The scene reflects a candid wildlife encounter, showcasing the lizard’s calm demeanor as it moves slowly across the sand. This vintage clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into a tropical coastal environment, perfect for nature documentaries, travel content, or archival storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for wildlife documentary inserts, Playa del Carmen travel edits, resort-adjacent nature context, social cuts, or family-travel sequences needing a large beach lizard in bright sand and low vegetation.
- Edit role
- Works as a short cutaway or reaction beat in a timeline, giving editors six seconds of a resting reptile on sand before returning to people, beach activity, or broader travel coverage.
- Visual details
- A large gray lizard rests on pale beach sand beside dense green leaves, with bright sun on the foreground, a small red flower near the lower edge, and no visible people in the sampled frames.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 41 MB
- Location
- Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- Mar 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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