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George S. FlemingEdwin S. Porter

Life of an American Fireman

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RELEASE

1903-01-21

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

7 min

Description

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...