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DENVER COLORADO-2016: Very Dark Footage With A Few Dim Lights Off In The Distance

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Denver, Colorado, United States 2016
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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.

Tags

dark nightsbarely lit locationssleepy townsmall city lightsbeautiful night skydarkfootagedimlightsdistancephysicalobjectsvisiblenaturedenver colorado2016modernhome videohome movieamateur

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.

Denver night frame with a mostly black sky and foreground, a low strip of small distant lights, faint reflections, and no visible people.
The opening frame establishes the clip's near-black Denver night atmosphere with only scattered lights on the horizon. (0:00)
A very dark Denver night view continues with a thin horizon of dim lights, black open space below, and no visible people.
This frame keeps the composition sparse, with small points of light carrying most of the visible detail. (0:01)

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