Life of an American Fireman 1903

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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...

Release Date 1903-01-21
Runtime 7m
Directors Edwin S. Porter, George S. Fleming, James H. White
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