HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: Thawing Ice-Covered Lake With Suburban Homes On One
About this clip
Thawing ice covers a quiet lake in Hidden Lake, Colorado, in 2016, as spring begins to melt the winter frost. Suburban homes line the shore, nestled among trees and open fields, with industrial buildings visible in the distance. This home movie captures the transition from winter to spring, showcasing the natural beauty and evolving landscape of a quiet Colorado community. The footage offers a nostalgic, cinematic glimpse into everyday life and seasonal change, ideal for documentaries, nature montages, or historical storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for documentary, local history, climate, development, or agency mood pieces needing a 2016 aerial view of a thawing lake beside suburban Colorado homes.
- Edit role
- The short runtime works as a quiet cutaway or transition beat between neighborhood, winter-to-spring, and land-use shots rather than a long location opener.
- Visual details
- Frames show a partly frozen lake with dark open water, pale gray ice, shoreline homes and bare trees on the left, brown open ground and larger buildings on the right, muted daylight, and 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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