Life of an American Fireman (1903)

1903 · Silent film · 7 min · dir. Edwin S. Porter

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Synopsis

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 . . .

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Details

Director

Edwin S. Porter

Studio

Edison Manufacturing Company

Released

1903-01-21

Running time

7 minutes

Cast & crew

• Edwin S. Porter Director
• VVivian Vaughan
• James H. White
• Arthur White
• Edwin S. Porter

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