Life of an American Fireman

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...

• Edwin S. PorterDirector

• Vivian VaughanThe Girl
• James H. WhiteThe Fire Chief
• Arthur WhiteThe Fireman (uncredited)
• Edwin S. PorterPoliceman