Life of an American Fireman
6.0/ 10 132 votes 1903-01-21 0h 7m 1 popularity
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
Vivian Vaughan
The Girl
James H. White
The Fire Chief
Arthur White
The Fireman (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter
Policeman
