HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: A Big Lake Near A Small Town Full Of Houses And Trees
About this clip
A serene home movie from 2016 captures a hidden lake nestled near a small town surrounded by houses and trees. Sunlight glints across the calm water, with mountains rising in the distance. The natural landscape unfolds in a peaceful, nostalgic style, evoking quiet Americana and the charm of rural life. This vintage-style footage offers a tranquil glimpse into a secluded mountain retreat, perfect for nature documentaries, travel features, or reflective storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Aerial lake and residential edge footage for travel edits, local documentary context, agency mood reels, brand films, or social cuts needing a Colorado small-town waterfront view.
- Edit role
- Use as a brief opener, transition, or cutaway between neighborhood and water scenes, with the short runtime suited to a quick geography beat rather than an extended scenic passage.
- Visual details
- The frames show a calm lake on the left, a curving shoreline road, a large modern building with green-tinted windows, houses and trees beyond it, distant mountains, clear blue sky, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 5s
- Codec
- H.264 MOV
- File size
- 41 MB
- Location
- Hidden Lake, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2016
- Published
- Nov 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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