The short film Terminal Bar is a documentary made by director Stefan Nadelman, which won the 2003 Atlanta Best Short Film Festival Jury Award.

The Terminal Bar is located on the cross of Eighth Avenue and 42 street. Stefan’s father Sheldon Nadelman was a bartender at Terminal Bar from 1972 to 1982 in New York. At that time, Sheldon bought an old camera from a guest. In his spare time, he took a lot of photos of the passengers and customers who walk through the bar and streets. It accumulated 25 million black and white shots for 10 years, and hung on the wall one by one. Every picture tells a story, every story is talking about the passions and the vicissitudes of life. They are like witness to the history of the city, and to keep memory of a group of people, record how everything changed over that 10 years.

The comepose type of context and picture in some moment use the form of newspaper, it enhanced the sense of age and storytelling. But I think it did not make a sense of readable, because the context size is small and there are lots of words in a short frame. However, there is a clear narration voice with background music. The background music is bright and the beat is energetic. The photos in this film are changing-over, appear and move following the beat of background music. At the last part of the film, the photos appear in a form which is like phantoscope, which is bring visual enjoyment.