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Life of an American Fireman
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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- Jan 21, 1903
- 7m
- No Language
- Edwin S. Porter
- Released
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Edison Manufacturing Company
