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The Life of a Fireman

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

Background of the scenario

This film was screened at Germania Hall on October 27 and 28, 1910, in conjunction with a film (described above) of the firemen’s parade. An account of the showing was carried in the New Rochelle Evening Standard, October 27, 1910.

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Cast and crew

No cast or crew is credited in the surviving sources for this film. Bowers records the title and the release; the names did not come with them.

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More about this film

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1910 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Life of a Fireman”. thanhouser.org/films/the-life-of-a-fireman/

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