Movie Settings Database

Life of an American Fireman

When:

The 1900s

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 in 1903 — 6 minutes

Genre:

Action

Languages:

English No Language