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Life of an American Fireman
1903 • 0h 7m • ★ 6.0 (128 votes) Released
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...
Director
Edwin S. Porter
Rating
6.0
Runtime
7 min
Production
Edison Manufacturing Company
