Life of an American Fireman

Name: Life of an American Fireman
Genre: Action
Released: 1903
Duration: 7 min
Rating: 5.966

1903 · 7 min

Action

★ 6.0

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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...

Crew

Director Edwin S. Porter

Cast

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Vivian Vaughan
The Girl
James H. White
The Fire Chief
Arthur White
The Fireman (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter
Policeman

Crew

Director — Edwin S. Porter

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Intermission

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