TAOS NEW MEXICO-2015: Houses In The Desert On A Cloudy Day With Mountains
About this clip
This vintage home movie captures a quiet desert landscape in Taos, New Mexico. Houses with distinct facades dot the arid terrain under a cloudy sky, with distant mountains framing the scene. The natural lighting and wide-angle perspective evoke a sense of isolation and serenity, offering authentic, unscripted footage of rural life. This cinematic home movie is ideal for documentaries, travel narratives, or nostalgic storytelling about American Southwest communities.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Travel editors, documentary producers, agency mood reels, and brand films can use this 4K Taos, New Mexico clip for a grounded view of desert homes under heavy cloud cover.
- Edit role
- At seven visible seconds, the shot works as a short opener, cutaway, or transition beat between town, architecture, and landscape material in a Southwest sequence.
- Visual details
- Adobe-style desert buildings with blue doors and small windows sit beside a dirt foreground, with dark mountains, a patch of snow, green trees, and layered gray clouds in the background, with no people visible.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 42 MB
- Location
- Taos New, Mexico
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- May 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.
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.