Gort""s composition was of microscopic insect-like devices (""nano-machines"") or bugs that could swarm around an object and completely disintegrate it.Their slapstick brand of comedy straddled he silent and talkie eras.It was entirely neglected for Academy Awards in its year of eligibility.The clueless, incompetent pair portrayed bumbling, innocent, derby-hatted fools in a hostile world: the thin, easy-going, but forever-victimized and dim-witted Stan, known for scratching his head with a bewildered look, whimpering, and speaking with a slight British accent; and the fat, wide-babyfaced, tie-fiddling Ollie, continually exasperated with his partner.Conway puts four bullets into the already-limp body.Henry witnesses the enormity of the violence and then slams the trunk shut.A simple zoom shot and then a freeze-frame holds on Henry""s face, as the main title credits play (with a blood-red title for the film).It""s also been considered a ""kids-version"" of Spielberg""s ownClose Encounters of a Third Kind (1977), with an alien who is instantly established as a sympathetic creature.