The making of this film is a story of a son bringing life to a project that his father had during his time at working the “Terminal Bar”. Culminating into a five-part series of films and a book displaying Sheldon Nadelman’sĀ work in a creative format.
Stefan Nadelman had grown up with his father telling stories and developing photos of theĀ patrons that he served in the Terminal Bar where he had worked in the 1970’s. After college Stefan saw new perspective on these photos. Stateing “It was a gift and I’d known it for a long time” (Belle, 2008) “in 2000 I took it upon myself to digitize all of his black-and-white photographs” (Nadelman, 2014). ThisĀ allĀ in preparation to present to his fatherĀ for theĀ film and to also toĀ animateĀ on “Flash” and “Final Cut” for the motion graphics (Belle, 2008). “I sat him down in the family room, fitted him with a microphone and hit record on a tripod-mounted camera, dropped the print outs of his Terminal Bar in front of him” (Nadelman, 2014). Upon doing this Nadelman recorded the stories about these characters and the development of this bar in New York.
It took over thirty years for Sheldon Nadelman’s work to see the light of day through his son’s short film, I think the thing to take away from this in regards to a project is to listen to people around you. The inspiration to create a project based on a story in somebody’sĀ life could beĀ in plain sightĀ waiting to be used.
Belle, M. (2008) DN079 Menomena Evil Bee Stefan Nadelman, Directors Notes. [Podcast] 13/03/2008. Available athttp://https://ia601305.us.archive.org/15/items/DN079MenomenaEvilBeeStefanNadelman/DN079_%20Menomena%20Evil%20Bee%20-%20Stefan%20Nadelman-02.mp3Ā [Accessed 29/11/2017].
Nadelman, S (2014) Terminal Bar: A Photographic Record of New Yorkās Most Notorious Watering Hole. San Fransisco: Chronicle Books.