Life of an American Fireman (1903)

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7m
Running Time

January 21, 1903
Release Date

Life of an American Fireman (1903)

1
/ 10
1 User Ratings
7m
Running Time

January 21, 1903
Release Date

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Plot.

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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Release Date
January 21, 1903

Status
Released

Running Time
7m

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Wiki.

Life of an American Fireman is a short, silent film Edwin S. Porter made for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It was shot late in 1902 and distributed early in 1903. One of the earliest American narrative films, it depicts the rescue of a woman and child from a burning building. It bears notable similarities to the 1901 British short film Fire!, directed by James Williamson.

In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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