Life of an American Fireman

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...

Genre:

Action

Duration:

7 min

Actor:

Vivian Vaughan, James H. White, Arthur White

Quality:

HD

Director:

Edwin S. Porter

Release:

1903

Country:

United States of America

IMDb:

6.0