1903
6.0 (122 votes)
0h 7m
Genres
Action
Production Companies
Edison Studios
Life of an American Fireman
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...
Key Crew
Director: George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter
Top Cast
Vivian Vaughan
The Girl
James H. White
The Fire Chief
Arthur White
The Fireman
Edwin S. Porter
Policeman
