SAN JOSE DEL CABO MEXICO-2017: An Abandoned Building Shown in a Desolate Urban Setting
About this clip
An abandoned building in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, captured in 2017 on home movie film. The clip shows a derelict structure with weathered walls and broken windows, set against a quiet, deserted urban backdrop. The footage has a grainy, nostalgic quality that evokes a sense of decay and forgotten history. The scene reflects a low-scale, modern architectural relic in a once-bustling area now left to time. This authentic home movie clip offers a raw, cinematic glimpse into urban abandonment and architectural decay.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Documentary editors, travel producers, agency mood reels, and brand films can use this San Jose del Cabo clip to show stalled coastal development, urban vacancy, or construction contrast near a beach setting.
- Edit role
- This short 8-second clip works as a cutaway, insert, or transition beat between beach scenes and broader context about development, vacancy, or architecture in a travel or documentary timeline.
- Visual details
- Frames show an unfinished concrete building behind a stone wall and sandy foreground, with a smaller pale building, palm trees, cloudy daylight, muted gray and beige tones, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 69 MB
- Location
- San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico
- Year filmed
- 2017
- Published
- Jan 2017
Still Frames From This Clip
3 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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