Life of an American Fireman

Name: Life of an American Fireman
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Genre: Action
Released: 1903-01-21
Duration: 7 min
Cast: Vivian Vaughan, James H. White, Arthur White, Edwin S. Porter

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1903 · 7 min · Action · TMDB 6.0/10

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...

Directed by Edwin S. Porter

Cast

Vivian Vaughan — The Girl
James H. White — The Fire Chief
Arthur White — The Fireman (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter — Policeman