
Life of an American Fireman
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1903-01-21 • 0h 7m
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...
- Directors
- George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter

Life of an American Fireman
Visit website1903-01-21 • 0h 7m
6.0/10 • 124
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...
- Directors
- George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsVivian Vaughan
The Girl
James H. White
The Fire Chief
Arthur White
The Fireman (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter
Policeman
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