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Life of an American Fireman(1903)
Status: Released
Date: 1903-01-21
60%
120 Votes
Time: 0h 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...
Languages: No Language.
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United States of America
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Movie: Life of an American Fireman
Top 4 Billed Cast
James H. White
The Fire Chief
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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5.988
Rating:
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