Life of an American Fireman (1903): Cast

Porter uses sequential continuity editing to stitch together a series of shots that follow firemen as they answer a house fire call. After departing the station in a horse‑drawn pumper, they race to the blaze, rescue a woman from the flames, and then learn she left her child sleeping in the burning bedroom, heightening the urgency of the rescue.

• GS Director George S. Fleming

• ES Edwin S. Porter as Policeman
• AW Arthur White as The Fireman (uncredited)
• JH James H. White as The Fire Chief
• VV Vivian Vaughan as The Girl

• Jack and the Beanstalk 1902
• Trapeze Disrobing Act 1901
• What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City 1901
• The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken 1901

Also known as

• The Story of the American Firemen
• Vida de um Bombeiro Americano
• Животът на един американски пожарникар
• Egy amerikai tűzoltó élete
• Жизнь американского пожарного
• 美国救火员的生活
• Vida de un bombero americano
• A vida de um bombeiro americano
• 一个美国消防员的生活
• 一個美國消防員的生活