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Life of an American Fireman

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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Title:
Life of an American Fireman

Latest releases:
Jan. 21, 1903

Decade:
Years 1900

Country of origin:
United States of America

Duration
7mn

Genres
Action

Actors
Vivian Vaughan, James H. White, Arthur White, Edwin S. Porter

Source:
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