HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: Beautiful Aerial View of an Empty City
About this clip
This cinematic home movie captures a hauntingly beautiful aerial view of an empty, lifeless city nestled near Hidden Lake Colorado. The desolate urban landscape unfolds in quiet stillness, offering a surreal contrast between nature and abandonment. The footage evokes a sense of solitude and introspection, with a soulless atmosphere that feels both eerie and strangely poetic. This amateur 4k-quality home video provides a rare glimpse into a forgotten place, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about modern urban decay.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for documentary, local development, infrastructure, or social edits needing an aerial look at a sparse residential edge near Hidden Lake, Colorado, with dry fields, service buildings, and no visible crowds.
- Edit role
- The short overhead view works as a cutaway, transition, or brief geographic insert between ground-level neighborhood shots and wider residential flyover material.
- Visual details
- Frames show dry open lots, a dirt drive, small buildings, parked vehicles, a round pond, reeds, roadside houses, and muted midday light, with no visible people in the aerial view.
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
- 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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