The Terminal Bar is a 22 minute long documentary film made up of photographs taken in black and white. Sheldon Nadelman took the series of photographs and was then produced by Stefan Nadelman, Sheldon’s son. Nadelmans role at the Terminal bar was being a bartender which gave him the opportunity to document the customers that dwelled in the bar between the years of 1973 to 1981.

The Terminal bar was made in 2002 and received the lucrative award for the Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. The Film is focused around observation and Nadelmans perspective through the slow change of time. Seeing the documentary filmed in that way gives the audience a far greater knowledge of how people lived and fine details that would usually  stay unnoticed.

The music that coincides with the images was clever, with the use of everyday bar sounds from that period of time. I Feel that it was there to create that extra sense of realism to the film and added a feeling of motion in the still photos and relates to the of rugged style that Nadelman was trying to convey. However it does begin to have an upbeat tone during the changing of the photos, this creates a clearer idea to view the photos.

Smooth transitions are used when introducing new images and articles, creating an easy watch for the audience. In addition to this, images are introduced at the correct time to match the spoken story lines helping to tell the narrative.