Life of an American Fireman

Name: Life of an American Fireman
Genre: Action
Released: 1903-01-21
Duration: 7 min
Cast: Arthur White, Edwin S. Porter, James H. White, Vivian Vaughan

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Release Date

1/21/1903

Runtime

7 mins

Genres

Action

Overview

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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Released

Original Language

English

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A landmark brief action sequence that follows firefighters from dispatch through a desperate house rescue, building tension through clever editing and real-time urgency. This is cinema learning to tell a story through pure visual narrative.