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Life of an American Fireman

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  • 1903
  • 0 hr 6 mins
  • Action & Adventure
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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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Cast & Crew See All

Edwin S. Porter
Policeman
Vivian Vaughan
The Girl
Arthur White
The Fireman

Awards

  • 2016 - National Film Registry - National Film Preservation Board - winner