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The Terminal Bar
From 1972 to 1982, A bartender named Shelly Nadelman photographed the patrons and surroundings of the Terminal Bar, a watering hole across the street from the Port Authority. The following films were created from the collection of the over 2,000 photographs Shelly shot during his ten year stint there.

Terminal Bar Trailer
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you can own TERMINAL BAR on DVD!
Cinema 16: American Short Films
or
The Best of Resfest Volume 3


S C R E E N I N G S

Sep 02-Jan 03 - Resfest Film Festival International - AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Jan 16-26, 2003 - Sundance Film Festival Park City, UT - JURY PRIZE FOR SHORT FILM
Jan 31-Feb 9, 2003 - Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand, France
Jan 31-June 2003 - Black Maria Film & Video Festival Universities Nationwide - JUROR'S CITATION AWARD
Feb 28-Mar 7, 2003 - Adelaide International Film Festival Adelaide, South Australia
Mar 5-9, 2003 - Tampere International Film Festival Tampere, Finland
Apr 2-6, 2003 - Aspen Shortsfest Aspen, CO - BEST EDITING AWARD
Apr 4-18, 2003 - Philadelphia Film Festival Philadelphia, PA
Apr 2-12, 2003 - NY International Indy Film/Video Festival NY, NY - BEST LOCAL DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Apr 17, 2003 - An Evening of Short Films Columbus, OH
Apr 25-May 4, 2003 - HotDocs - Canadian International Documentary Film Festival Toronto, Canada
Apr 27, 2003 - Pacific Palisades Film Festival Pacific Palisades, CA
Apr 28-May 4, 2003 - Nashville Independent Film Festival Nashville, TN - HONORABLE MENTION SHORT DOCUMENTARY
May 1-6, 2003 - Oberhausen International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
May 6-11, 2003 - Tribeca Film Festival NY, NY
May 15-17, 2003 - Courtisane Short Film Festival Gent, Belgium
May 22-June 15, 2003 - OUTTAKES Auckland/Wellington/Dunedin/Christ Church, New Zealand
May 23 - CANNES (Clermont-Ferrand Film Market) Cannes, France
June 3-8, 2003
- Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto, Canada - BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
June 6-14, 2003 - Atlanta Film Festival Atlanta, GA - GRAND JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORT
June 11-21, 2003 - Los Angeles Film Festival Los Angeles, CA
June 12, 2003 - MoMA: Outstanding Short Films from International Film Festivals NY, NY
June 12-17 2003 - Norwegian Short Film Festival Oslo, Norway
June 13-21 2003 - Cinevegas International Film Festival Las Vegas, NV
June 18-22 2003 - Tübingen Short Film Festival Tübingen, Germany
June 19-22 2003 - Nantucket Film Festival Nantucket, MA
June 20-26 2003 - Arcipelago Short Film Festival Rome, Italy - BEST SHORT FILM in digital video
July 10-21, 2003 - OUTFEST Los Angeles, CA
July 11, 2003
- Coastside Film Night Half Moon Bay, CA
July 11-21, 2003 - Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Philadelphia, PA
July 14-19 2003 - Montecatini International Short Film Festival Montecatini, Italy - SPECIAL MENTION for best documentary
July 23-10 2003 - Melbourne International Short Film Festival Melbourne, Australia
July 29-31, 2003 - SIGGRAPH 2003 San Diego, CA
Aug 17, 2003 - Hollywood Shorts Los Angeles, CA
Aug 31, 2003
- 1 Reel (Bumbershoot) Seattle, WA
Sep 16-22, 2003 - Palm Springs Film Festival Palm Springs, California
Sep 12-21, 2003 - Athens International Film Festival Athens, Greece
Sep 12-14, 2003 - La Ciotat - Best of International Best of Short Films French Riviera - BRONZE SEA AWARD
Sep 19, 2003 - Rooftop Films Brooklyn, NY
Sep 19-21, 2003
- Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival Birmingham, AL
Sep 25-Oct 2, 2003 - Malibu International Film Festival Malibu, CA
Sep 26-Oct 5, 2003
- Calgary International Film Festival Calgary, Canada
Sep 26-28, 2003 - Port Townsend Film Festival Port Townsend, WA

Oct 2-5, 2003 - Tallgrass Film Festival Wichita, KS
Oct 9-19, 2003 - Denver International Film Festival Denver, CO
Oct 10, 2003 - THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: ARTISTS USING PHOTOGRAPHY Minneapolis, MN
Oct 17-23, 2003 - Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Seattle, WA

Oct 23-26, 2003 - MidCoast Film & Arts Festival Quad-Cities, IL & IA - BEST SHORT FILM
Oct 24-Nov 2, 2003 - Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Hot Springs National Park, AR
Oct 25-Nov 2, 2003 - Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist Kyiv, Ukraine
Nov 5-9, 2003 - INVIDEO Milan, Italy
Nov 5-9, 2003 - Rehoboth Beach Indepependent Film Festival Rehoboth Beach, DE
Nov 7-16, 2003 - Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival Copenhagen, Denmark
Nov 13-23, 2003 - Stockholm International Film Festival Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 21-29, 2003 - Barcelona International Short Film Festival Barcelona, Spain
Nov 27-Dec 7, 2003 - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Dec 11-21, 2003 - Anchorage Film Festival Anchorage, AK
Jan 3-11, 2004 - Flickerfest International Short Film Festival Sydney, Australia
March 5-14, 2004 - Skopje International Film Festival Republic of Macedonia
March 11, 2004 - Dallas Film Series Dallas, TX
March 31-April 4, 2004 - Images du Nouveau Monde Quebec, Canada


Terminal Bar Slideshow
view some selected photograhs from the Terminal Bar
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P R E S S

ROGERT EBERT ON TERMINAL BAR
By Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun Times. January 27th 2003

TERMINAL BAR
By Armond White. New York Press. October 9-15, 2002

END OF THE LINE : STEFAN NADELMAN'S TERMINAL BAR
By Gil Jawetz. DVDtalk.com. Cinema Gotham. October 13, 2002

ISU GRADUATE WINS AT SUNDANCE
By Stephanie Yost. Iowa State Daily. February 10, 2003

NADELMAN'S FLASH SHORT WINS SUNDANCE JURY PRIZE
By Jessie Nagel. Animation Magazine. February 18, 2003

TERMINAL BAR BLUES
By Mary Keefe. BlackBook No. 21, NIGHT. Winter 2001-02

BLOWJOB? WHO GIVES A SHIT?
By John Demetry. Gay Today.com. February 16th, 2003

MISCELLANEOUS PRESS CLIPPINGS
Various brief reviews and mentions.

THE ROUGHEST BAR IN TOWN
By Orde Coombs. New York Magazine. December 1, 1980

TERMINAL BAR, EIGHTH AVENUE: THE END IS NEAR
By Peter Genovese. Home News. 1982



R E L A T E D L I N K S

MAN'S MASTERS PLAN : THE GARBAGE CAN
selected shots from sheldon nadelman's garbage can series, shot from behind the bar looking out the front door to 8th & 41st set to a dick zved remix of "riders on the storm".
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TERMINAL BOOZING
cartoonist & writer bob hall begins and ends this essay referencing his brief visit at the terminal bar.



F A C T S

bar location : SE corner 8th Avenue & 41st Street - NYC
acquired by murray goldman : 1958
shut down for good : 1982

what was there after the bar: video store (kung-fu and porn)
what's there now :
New York Times Headquarters

sheldon nadelman bartended there : 1972-1982
music : dick zved, steve rossiter, michael reid
narration : tom clifford
TRT: 22:22

 

TERMINAL BAR : the film

TERMINAL BAR
photographs by Sheldon Nadelman
produced, directed, and animated by Stefan Nadelman

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