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Life of an American Fireman

1903-01-21
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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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The Fire Chief

James H. White

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The Fireman (uncredited)

Arthur White

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Policeman

Edwin S. Porter

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