HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: Local Farms Drying Up After A Groundwater Dig
About this clip
This home movie captures a rural community in crisis as local farms dry up following a failed groundwater dig. The footage shows parched fields, cracked earth, and struggling agricultural operations under a harsh sun. This authentic Super 8 home movie offers a poignant look at environmental challenges and economic hardship in a small town. A rare, unfiltered glimpse into the real-life consequences of resource mismanagement, ideal for documentaries, environmental studies, or historical storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Documentary, environmental, municipal planning, real estate, or local news projects can use this aerial view of dry fields beside a residential neighborhood in Hidden Lake, Colorado.
- Edit role
- This short clip works as an opener, transition, or cutaway between ground-level community coverage and broader context about farmland, suburban growth, or water stress.
- Visual details
- Dry tan fields fill the foreground and midground, rows of detached homes and streets sit beyond them, a few vehicles are visible, and no people are visible in the frames.
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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