Movie: Life of an American Fireman

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Vivian Vaughan
Vivian Vaughan

The Girl

James H. White
James H. White

The Fire Chief

Arthur White
Arthur White

The Fireman

Edwin S. Porter
Edwin S. Porter

Policeman

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    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...

  • Release Date

    1903-01-21

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