Life of an American Fireman poster

Quick Info

Rating

6.0/10

Release1903

Runtime0h 7m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

RevenueN/A

Production

Edison Studios

Movie

Life of an American Fireman

1903

0h 7m

6.0

Action

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...

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