The film called Terminal Bar (released in 2002) is the story about the photos that were taken by Stefan Nadelman. Stefan uses over 2500 still shots taken over 10 years to show the progression of the bar and its inhabitants from 1972 to 1982. This pictorial history won the Grand Prize for Best Short at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

The integration of the photos and the actual film footage is used in a certain way which allows the Stefan to keep the old style and for him to switch from photo to film in a very smooth fashion. The music used in the film has a strong link to the style and roughness of the bar when it was open and used. However it does begin to have an upbeat tone during the changing of the  photos, this creates a clearer effect to view the photos. We do also hear a large amount bar background noises which helps set the scene.

We start off by seeing random selections of photos that present us with examples of the style of people that would drink at the bar. This however transitions and develops as the documentary goes on, putting on view the customers  that would inhabit the bar day in, day out. The film is based on observation and this permits us to view a bar in New York from the perspective of the barmen. A barmen notices even the slightest, especially when certain characters spend their days in the dark drinking, this gives the film an edge that not many documentary’s have since it’s the smallest details that do not go unnoticed.