Life of an American Fireman

Life of an American Fireman(1903)

01/21/1903 (US)Action0h 7m
6.0

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...

George S. Fleming

Director

Edwin S. Porter

Director