The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 black-and-white Walt Disney Productions film based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor. The title character was based in part on Hubert Alyea a professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton University, who was known as "Dr. Boom" for his explosive demonstrations. The film was a huge success at the box-office, and two years later became the first Disney film to have a sequel, 1963's Son of Flubber. The original 1961 film was one of the first Disney films to be colorized , and along with 1959's The Shaggy Dog and 1963's Son of... Flubber, it is one of Disney's few black-and-white films made after 1941. Professor Brainard is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a substance that gains energy when it strikes a hard surface. This discovery follows some blackboard scribbling in which he reverses a sign in the equation for enthalpy to energy plus pressure times volume. Brainard names his discovery Flubber, a portmanteau of "flying rubber.
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| Release date: | March 16, 1961 |
| Directed by: | Robert Stevenson |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Producer: | Bill Walsh |
| Editor: | Cotton Warburton |
| Music by: | George Bruns |
| Cinematography: | Edward Colman |
| Screenplay by: | Bill Walsh |
| Adapted from: | A Situation of Gravity |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Comedy |