HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: Looking Down From A Hot Air Balloon Over The City
About this clip
Shot from a hot air balloon in 2016, this vintage home movie footage captures a sweeping aerial view of Hidden Lake, Colorado. The clip shows a sun-drenched cityscape with scattered buildings, trees, and parked cars below. The warm, golden light enhances the natural beauty of the landscape, offering a nostalgic and cinematic perspective. This amateur home movie provides a unique, personal glimpse into a summer day in a quiet Colorado town, perfect for documentaries, travel montages, or nostalgic storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for travel edits, local documentary context, agency mood reels, brand films, or social cuts needing a straight-down aerial view of Hidden Lake, Colorado with sports fields, roads, parking, trees, and homes.
- Edit role
- The short runtime works as a quick overhead cutaway, transition, or location texture beat between wider neighborhood aerials and closer street or residential shots.
- Visual details
- Frames show a top-down view of a green sports field, empty parking spaces, a two-lane road, sidewalks, landscaped medians, scattered cars, houses, trees, and hard midday shadows, with no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 5s
- Codec
- H.264 MOV
- File size
- 40 MB
- Location
- Hidden Lake, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2016
- Published
- Oct 2016
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.
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