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Life of an American Fireman

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Life of an American Fireman

6.0

0h 7m

1903

Synopsis

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

Action

Cast & Crew

Vivian Vaughan

as The Girl

James H. White

James H. White

as The Fire Chief

Arthur White

Arthur White

as The Fireman (uncredited)

Edwin S. Porter

Edwin S. Porter

as Policeman

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