HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: Almost Frozen Dam With Water Overflowing To Surrounding Banks
About this clip
This vintage home movie captures a nearly frozen dam with water overflowing onto the surrounding banks. The scene unfolds along a quiet road near a small town, showing houses and buildings nestled beside the icy lake. The frozen surface contrasts with the rushing overflow, creating a striking natural moment. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of a hidden lake in Colorado, perfect for documentaries, nature montages, or historical storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for documentary, local history, climate, infrastructure, or regional travel edits needing aerial 4K footage of a partly frozen lake and dam overflow in Hidden Lake, Colorado.
- Edit role
- Works as a short cutaway or transition beat between neighborhood, road, and water-management shots, with enough visual information to show the frozen lake surface and spillover banks quickly.
- Visual details
- The frames show green lake water with pale sheets and streaks of ice, curved shoreline paths, a small pond with a fountain, roads, winter grass, and nearby homes or buildings, with no visible people.
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
- Dec 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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