Terminal Bar is a documentary by Stefan Nadelman in 2002 and it’s a short film about Stefan’s father, Sheldon Nadelman. The bar is located on time square known as the roughest bar in the city. This film has been constructed by using photographic material that Sheldon collected over 10 years of working there. He captured portraits of 2000 costumers from all different backgrounds. He had documented the people in a way to clearly demonstrate their emotions, expressions and state. The film goes through certain costumers that come to the bar like the celebrity Gene Tierney. The structure of this film is made of stills containing photographs and newspaper articles of selective people and events that happened during the busy period. Throughout the film there is a combination of animation, live action and desaturated photographs. In my opinion, the portraiture photographs were taken to examine the nature of the establishment from an Irish bar transforming into a gay bar. I also feel that the documentary provides the viewer a window of history in New York with a humorous effect.  While watching the short film I felt that the narration and the music creates a dark sense that contrasts with the humour in the live action interviews with Stefan Nadelman. By reviewing the short film, I continued to find significant themes such as, alcoholism, broken lives and gay culture in the 1970. Overall, the costumers are the main topic and the structure of the whole documentary and makes it intriguing by giving the viewers personal details and individuality.

Stefan Nadelman (2002) Terminal Bar: Official 2002 film in HD, YouTube, Avalible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWBbZBqYjo [Accessed at: 5th October 2017]