Life of an American Fireman (1903)
01/21/1903 (US) • 7m
Overview
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...
Top Billed Cast
The Girl
The Fire Chief
The Fireman (uncredited)
Policeman
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