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Life of an American Fireman

6.0 7 mins Action   1903
Edison Manufacturing Company  
Director(s): Edwin S. Porter

Release Date: 21 Wed, Jan 1903

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...

Casts of Life of an American Fireman

Vivian Vaughan

as The Girl

James H. White

as The Fire Chief

Arthur White

as The Fireman (uncredited)

Edwin S. Porter

as Policeman

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