When the film, Terminal Bar was created, I noticed the whole video was based around a newspaper article and what events happened at the bar in New York 1972-82. The events at the bar were documents by Stephan’s Father, Sheldon Nadelman who was a bartender. The events are documented in this film by narration of the newspaper article, still images and visual text.

The clean cut images in black and white stood out in this film and created a sense of history taking the viewers back in time when watching the film.

I noticed through the music that the creator of the film, considered the effect music has on people. As music is played throughout the whole film even over the narration, it creates an upbeat vibe suggesting that the place was somewhere people gather to have a drink. Furthermore as the images flew in and out the frame, they moved to the beat of the music suggesting that Nadelman focused on his audience and their reactions to the film.

The way that the images moved across the screen reminded me of how film rolls when played, I would describe the film like this as the images were rolled out and in film format (squares). The old style film was skilfully put together as when two stills were played one after the other it made a moving effect, tricking the viewer into thinking that it is motion.

The collection of still images were all bevelled at the sides suggesting that all the people in the photographs shared memories.