This video has demonstrated a popular bar on the corner of a busy New York street.

The quality of the video is typically quite poor but that references well to the theme/ era of when the video is set. Throughout the video is a constant piece of jukebox style music being played quite loud over the top of the narrator so it becomes hard to hear them.

In particular I find it really interesting how this video was created using many stunning portraits of the bar users and how they all change over the course of ten years whilst heavily drinking thus changing their faces.

It became a very popular bar for a variety of cultures and had many regular visitors as this was a place they could all gather without any bother from each other. In the video, the photos mainly focus on people doing things, whether that’s mid conversation, walking down the street, drinking, laughing, looking ahead, it works really well that the photo subjects are very well thought out yet seem so candid and swiftly taken in the moment. There a few slight pauses in the video showing newspaper articles about the Terminal bar, specifically about how it was the toughest bar in New York city. These pauses were very typographical with a very old-style newspaper, relevant to the time, showing heavy serif fonts.

The man narrating was the owner of the bar and worked there through the ten years to which he tells the whole story of his time there.