Life of an American Fireman (1903)

Life of an American Fireman (1903)

1903-01-21 United States of America 7 Min. PG-13
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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...