Life of an American Fireman

6.0

7m

1903

Action

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...

Starring

Vivian Vaughan, James H. White, Arthur White, Edwin S. Porter

Directed By

George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter