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DENVER COLORADO-2016: Big City At Night With Lights

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Denver, Colorado, United States 2016
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About this clip

A nighttime aerial view of Denver, Colorado in 2016, showcasing the city's illuminated skyline and sprawling urban landscape. Bright lights from high-rise buildings and major thoroughfares create a vibrant, modern glow against the dark sky. This home movie footage captures the energy and scale of a major American city at night, offering a nostalgic yet cinematic perspective. The clip highlights the city's architectural density and urban glow, perfect for storytelling, travel content, or historical documentation.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for a Denver travel edit, documentary chapter, agency mood reel, brand film, or social cut needing a dark nighttime aerial over a lit American city horizon.
Edit role
Works as a short opener, transition beat, nighttime cutaway, or quiet closer when an editor needs city lights and negative space rather than street-level action.

Tags

scenedarkcitylandscapeaerialviewbignightlightsbuildingslandmarksdenver colorado20164kfootageemotionnewinspirationcinematic

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MOV
File size
40 MB
Location
Denver, 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.

A dark nighttime aerial view over Denver, Colorado, with a thin line of distant city lights near the horizon and no visible people.
The opening frame sets a low, distant band of Denver lights against a mostly black night sky. (0:00)
A wide Denver night view shows clustered urban lights stretching across the horizon, with the frame dominated by dark sky and no visible people.
This frame keeps the city lights small and distant, useful as a quiet nighttime transition. (0:01)

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