DENVER COLORADO-2016: Very Dark Footage With A Few Dim Lights Off In The Distance
About this clip
Shot in Denver, Colorado in 2016, this home movie captures a quiet, atmospheric night scene. The frame is dominated by deep darkness, with only a few distant, dim lights visible—suggesting a sleepy town or suburban neighborhood at night. The minimal illumination creates a moody, cinematic ambiance, with faint glimmers of city lights in the distance. This amateur footage offers a raw, authentic glimpse of urban stillness under a dark sky, ideal for evoking mystery, solitude, or contemplative mood in modern storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for documentary, travel edit, agency mood reel, or brand film needing a very dark Denver night view with sparse distant lights and no visible people.
- Edit role
- Works as a brief nighttime texture, transition beat, or quiet closer when an edit needs five to seven seconds of near-black urban atmosphere rather than a detailed establishing view.
- Visual details
- The frames show a mostly black night sky and dark foreground, a low distant horizon line, scattered small city lights, faint water-like reflections, and no visible people.
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.
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