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...since 2001 has a movie so cannily inverted consciousness and altered audience perception as The Hellstrom Chronicle. It is a wry and scarifying cautionary tale, whose point is most neatly summed up by the fictional scientist-narrator Dr. Nils Hellstrom: "The insect has the answer because he never asked the question." In scene after remarkable scene, assorted species of insect are shown as unreasoning, unfeeling creatures who will survive the kind of atomic cataclysm that man, with his superior intellect, continues to shape for himself. "The true winner," says Hellstrom, "is the last to finish the race...
...essay on human fallibility and insect adaptability, The Hellstrom Chronicle seems just a little too facile. The pseudo-documentary framework of the film becomes rickety in places, as Hellstrom (Lawrence Pressman) intones a narration more inflated than informative ("The world was created not with the sweetness of love but the violence of rape"). It is rather as a visual experience that the film succeeds so supremely well...
Died. Carl Reinhold Hellstrom, 68, president since 1946 of gunmakers Smith & Wesson Inc., a Swedish-born engineer who joined the company in 1931, found it with no blueprints for its weapons, no research or engineering department, no catalogue of its thousands of tools, by World War II had so changed things that Smith & Wesson cornered 75% of U.S. Army revolver orders, has since all but pushed rival Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. out of the sidearms business; of a heart attack; in Newton, Mass...
...NILS E. HELLSTROM...
...final of the 1500-meter (1640 yards), J. D. Lightbody secured first place, with McGough, England, second, and Hellstrom, Sweden, third. The time was 4 minutes, 12 seconds...