Life of an American Fireman

The story

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...

Cast & crew

Vivian Vaughan

Vivian VaughanThe Girl

James H. WhiteThe Fire Chief

Arthur WhiteThe Fireman (uncredited)

Edwin S. PorterPoliceman