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The Absent Minded Professor: Directed by Robert Stevenson. With Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk. A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.
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- Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
- Robert Stevenson
- 1961-03-16
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Professor Ned 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. Ned names his discovery Flubber, a p...
The aforementioned Prof. Hubert Alyea (1903–1996), professor of chemistry at Princeton University, earned the nickname "Dr. Boom" from Russian observers of his demonstrations at the International Science Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair in the 1950s, which had Walt Disney in attendance. Disney told Alyea that he had given him an idea for a fil...
At the 34th Academy Awards on April 9, 1962, The Absent-Minded Professor had nominations for three Academy Awards. 1. Art Direction (Black and White) (Carroll Clark, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman). 2. Cinematography (Black and White) (Edward Colman) 3. Special Effects (Robert A. Mattey, Eustace Lycett)
The film was reissued to theaters in 1967 and 1975, and released to video in 1981, 1986, and 1993. It was released as a pan and scan print on VHS in black and white in 1981 and 1993, and in a colorized version in 1986 and 1997 (to commemorate the release of the new remake Flubber). In 2003, the film was released to DVD in widescreen. In 2008, the f...
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it "remarkably bouncy entertainment ... the grown-ups should find it entertaining for the silly shenanigans it contains and for the simple satisfaction of noting the pleasure it gives the kids". Variety described it as "a comedy-fantasy of infectious absurdity" with MacMurray "ideally cast". Philip K. Sc...
Sequels
MacMurray, Olson, Reid, and Kirk reprised their roles in Son of Flubber, a sequel released less than two years later in 1963. Hewitt also returns (now as District Attorney), as well as the two Wynns (Keenan reprising his Alonzo P. Hawk role). Wynn appeared in Herbie Rides Again (1974), the second film in Disney's Love Bug franchise, playing Alonzo A. Hawk rather than Alonzo P. Hawk. As the name is slightly changed, it is unclear whether the two series are meant to share a precise universe, bu...
Remake
The Absent-Minded Professor has been remade as a 1997 theatrical film titled Flubber, with Robin Williams as the renamed Prof. Philip Brainard, with Marcia Gay Hardenas his love interest, Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds (Nancy Olson appears in a cameo). Though neither the Anderson film nor the 1997 remake were as highly regarded as the original, the Robin Williams version was still a considerable success. Both remakes were made in color.
Chemistry
Several rubbery chemical compounds are named Flubber in honor of The Absent-Minded Professor's substance.
Super Ball, the bouncy toy-ball invented in 1964 that is made from a synthetic rubberWingrove, David. The Science Fiction Film Source Book(Longman Group Limited, 1985)TVGuide.com Movies pageThe Absent-Minded Professor at IMDbThe Absent-Minded Professor at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Absent-Minded Professor at AllMovieOct 24, 2020 · 599252364. The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 American comic science fiction family film produced by Walt Disney Productions based on the short story "A Situation of Gravity" by Samuel W. Taylor originally published in the May 22, 1943 issue of Liberty magazine. The title character was based in part on Hubert Alyea, a professor emeritus of ...
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Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/19/23 Full Review Jeffrey M The Absent minded Professor was an amazing movie. I watched it a long time ago and it was a really good movie.
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Visit Medfield College and delight in the fun when Professor Brainard uses Flubber to put more bounce in the basketball team, fly a Model "T" Jalopy over Washington, D.C., and save Medfield College from financial ruin! Directed By. Robert Stevenson.
Synopsis. Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray) is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a green 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.
