Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 21st, 1903
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Edison Studios
Life of an American Fireman (1903)
Audience Score
7 min
Action
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...
