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Dead Insect Captured on Camera (2014)

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife 2014
No people visible. No identifiable people are visible in this clip. Commercial clearance still depends on the final use and any property shown.

About this clip

A brief home movie clip from 2014 captures a lifeless insect in close-up, filmed with amateur cinematography. The raw, unedited footage offers a quiet moment of stillness and decay, evoking a sense of natural realism. Shot on vintage-style home movie film, this short clip provides a poignant, contemplative b-roll moment suitable for documentaries, nature studies, or emotional storytelling. Its intimate, unpolished quality reflects the era’s digital home video aesthetic.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentaries, science explainers, experimental shorts, or social edits needing a close macro view of a lifeless insect without people in frame.
Edit role
Works as a brief insert, cutaway, or quiet texture beat in a timeline, especially where a 6-second close-up can signal stillness, decay, or a small natural detail.
Visual details
The frames show a pale, translucent insect or spider-like body lying close to a cream-colored surface, with soft yellow highlights, shallow focus, blurred background shapes, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The composition stays in tight macro close-up from a low ground-camera angle, with the subject centered to upper center and fine legs extending across the softly focused foreground.

Tags

insectlifelessdeadcapturedcameraanimalswildlifecuteintroductionbuyhome movieamateurlovecinematographykindbeautiful

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
40 MB
Year filmed
2014
Published
Dec 2014

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

At the opening moment, a pale lifeless insect or spider-like body rests near the upper center of a cream-colored surface, with no visible people.
The first frame establishes the close macro subject and the soft, pale visual tone of the clip. (0:00)
One second in, the lifeless insect remains in tight close-up with dark markings near the head area and thin legs fading into the cream foreground, with no visible people.
This frame shows the insect's small dark head markings and delicate legs within the shallow-focus shot. (0:01)
At two seconds, the pale insect stays framed in nearly the same macro position, with the body sharpest near the center and the surrounding surface falling softly out of focus, with no visible people.
The frame gives editors a sustained observational view of the dead insect without distracting background detail. (0:02)
Dead pale insect viewed close up against a blurred cream background

License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.