The title says it all already what this short film is about. The house is burning, smoke is everywhere and a fireman climbs up a ladder to get a woman out.
The Edison team of William Heise and W.K.
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Because of being the first film company to open in the US, the Edison Manufacturing Co. was often the initiator of several popular film genres during the first years of cinema.
Footage of fire-fighters in action quickly became one of the popular genres of 1890s motion pictures, and this very short feature is one of the very earliest examples. Unlike most of the later movies of similar subjects, it was filmed in the studio rather than outdoors.
