Life of an American Fireman
Life of an American Fireman

Life of an American Fireman

7 min

1903

US

NR

Action

60%

User Score

Overview

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

Movie cast

Vivian Vaughan

Vivian Vaughan

The Girl

James H. White

James H. White

The Fire Chief

Arthur White

Arthur White

The Fireman (uncredited)

Edwin S. Porter

Edwin S. Porter

Policeman

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