Life of an American Fireman(Movie, 1903)

Name: Life of an American Fireman
Genre: Action
Released: 1903
Duration: T00:6:00
Rating: 3.1

6min | Genre: Action

Rating: 3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

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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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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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: Edison Manufacturing Company

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), No Language (XX)

Translated into 4 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 01/21/1903

Cast: James White

Director: Edwin Stanton Porter, George S. Fleming

Screenwriter: Edwin Stanton Porter

Director of Photography: Edwin Stanton Porter

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Животът на един американски пожарникар"

"Vida de um Bombeiro Americano"

"Egy amerikai tűzoltó élete"

"Жизнь американского пожарного"

"The Story of the American Firemen"

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Life of an American Fireman(Movie, 1903)

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