Life of an American Fireman
January 21, 1903
7 min
✓ Released 45007 days ago
Action
6.0
User Score
128 votes
About
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...
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Runtime: 7 min
Top Cast
Vivian Vaughan
The Girl
James H. White
The Fire Chief
Arthur White
The Fireman (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter
Policeman
