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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Vivian Vaughan as The Girl
James H. White as The Fire Chief
Arthur White as The Fireman (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter as Policeman
Edwin S. Porter Director
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CHANGE BEFORE GOING PRODUCTIONS: ...
A short film.
This excerpt from the classic docudrama consists of various operations of a fireman of that period went through in order to extinguish a fire. The outdoor scenes ...
Primera película basada en un guión estructurado La vida de un bombero americano.
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Edwin Porter 1902 Includes a well-known sequence in which Porter attempted to depict action happening simultaneously from two perspectives: one exterior ...
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