Life of an American Fireman (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...
Director: Edwin S. Porter
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Vivian Vaughan as The Girl |
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James H. White as The Fire Chief |
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Arthur White as The Fireman (uncredited) |
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Edwin S. Porter as Policeman |
| Directing | Edwin S. Porter | Director |