Life of an American Fireman

• Cast: Vivian Vaughan, James H. White, Arthur White, Edwin S. Porter
• Duration: 7 minutes
• Genre: Action
• Rating: 5.996/10
• Release Date: 1903-01-21

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...