Released
Life of an American Fireman
January 21 1903 (almost 122 years ago)Rating
60
Based on
117 reviews
- Directors: George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter
- Genre: Action
- Runtime: 7 m
- Country: United States of America
- Company: Edison Studios
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...
