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Life of an American Fireman (1903)
Directed by Edwin S. Porter, George S. Fleming
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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…
Length 7 minutes
Actors
Vivian Vaughan | James H. White | Arthur White | Edwin S. Porter