After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
Dir. Edwin S. Porter · With Gilbert M. Anderson, John Manus Dougherty Sr., Frank Hanaway
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...
Dir. Edwin S. Porter · With Vivian Vaughan, James H. White, Arthur White
