Life of an American Fireman (1903)

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...

Released Jan. 21, 1903 7 min None+

Genres: Action, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.national-film-registry, imdb.firehouse, imdb.child-in-jeopardy, imdb.fire, imdb.horse, imdb.rescue + 14 more, imdb.ladder, imdb.hose, imdb.fire-alarm, imdb.dog, imdb.daydream, imdb.axe, imdb.firefighting, imdb.melodrama, imdb.firefighter, imdb.fire-pole, imdb.horses, imdb.firemen, aspectratio.1-33-1, awards.national-film-preservation-board-winner