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DENVER COLORADO-2015: Person Using A Glass Cup On Top Of A Wood With Sunlight To Create Fire

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Denver, Colorado, United States 2015
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About this clip

DENVER COLORADO-2015: A person uses a glass cup to focus sunlight onto a wooden surface, creating a bright spark that ignites a small flame. This intimate home movie captures a simple science experiment with natural light and warmth. The scene evokes curiosity and discovery, showcasing a moment of hands-on creativity in a sunlit setting. This vintage home movie footage offers a nostalgic, cinematic look at everyday ingenuity, perfect for educational, inspirational, or artistic projects.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for documentary, education, brand film, or social edits about hands-on science, survival basics, sunlight, fire starting, or everyday experimentation in Denver, Colorado.
Edit role
Works as a short insert or cutaway showing the result of focused sunlight on wood, with enough duration for a quick cause-and-effect beat around spark, smoke, and small flame.
Visual details
Close frames show lumber on grass with charred marks, a bright concentrated sun spot, wisps of smoke, and a small flame forming on the wood, with no visible person in these sampled frames.

Tags

cupglasswoodlightsunsparkfirepersontopsunlightcreatesciencedenver colorado C2015amateurintrocinematicmodernb-roll

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
39 MB
Location
Denver, Colorado, United States
Year filmed
2015
Published
Aug 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 concentrated bright sun spot touches a dark charred mark on wood laid over grass in Denver, Colorado, with no visible people in the frame.
The opening frame shows focused sunlight beginning to burn a marked spot on the wood. (0:00)
A white glare point and faint smoke sit over the burned area of the wooden plank, with grass behind it in the Denver, Colorado outdoor setting and no visible people.
This frame captures the sunlight concentrating on the wood as smoke starts to appear. (0:01)

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