Life of an American Fireman

1903 · 6 min · drama film, action film, silent film

★ 6.0/10 · 132 ratings on TMDB

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...