Life of an American Fireman

Duration: 8 min

Year Published: 1905

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: First effort to discover the narrative potentialities of the motion picture. Edwin S. Porter edited his film to present two parallel lines of action progressing simultaneously until the intersect. About 300 firemen appear, as well as a mother and child whom they save from a burning building.

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