“If you don’t put it down on paper nobody knows” Sheldon Nadelman who between the years of 1972 and 1982 was the manager of Terminal Bar in 8th Avenue New York. Nadelman documented the life of the bar by photographing the people who passed through its doors for 10 years; this included the faces of actors, cooks, pimps and drug addicts. His collection now acts as a record of a bar with many stories. In 2002 his son Stefan Nadelman created a film dedicated to the forgotten story of the life in and around Terminal Bar.

The soundtrack was a fundamental part of editing, starting with street noise that paired with the rolling photographs of New York City transitioned like the rolling out of old film. What follows is the chronological appearance of black and white photographs of many rugged faces holding the gaze with the viewer; this shows a closeness with Terminal Bar, these people are its identity- all of which fade back to black as a metaphor of them disappearing from the streets. A panning in and out of news articles of the narrative dialogue gave the effect that what’s going on in Terminal Bar is the newest and most exciting scene.

The beat of the film adapts like the bar does to its customers, staying true to his father’s still photographs panning and zooming in on details to match the point of narration gives them movement. The photos further come to life with his fathers accounts of certain characters grouped together in relationships, any focus of a character darts into another, with period of photos flashing and moving to a slow or high tempo beat mimicking the movement of people in and out of the bar.