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Product Description ------------------- Hailed as one of Walt Disney's most hilarious comedies, THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR contains two essential elements for laughter -- Fred MacMurray and Flubber, his gravity-defying formula for flying rubber! You'll visit Medfield College and delight in the fun when Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray) 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! Join a brilliant cast full of your favorite Disney stars: Ed Wynn as Medfield's bumbling Fire Chief, Keenan Wynn as the evil-minded Alonzo Hawk, and Nancy Olson as the college secretary who the Professor has absent-mindedly left at the altar ... three times! It's high-flying fun for the entire family!|The motion picture, made on a small budget, did fine business at the box office, inspiring the 1963 sequel SON OF FLUBBER.|When the movie was released, Time magazine called it "The season's kookiest science-fiction farce" and printed the special effects department's recipe for Flubber: "One pound saltwater taffy, one heaping tablespoon polyurethane foam, one cake crumbled yeast. Mix till smooth, allow to rise, then pour into saucepan over one cup cracked rice mixed with one cup water. Add molasses. Boil until it lifts lid."|The filmmakers decided the film should be in black and white to make the special effects more believable. It was later colorized.|Walt Disney was allegedly inspired to make the film after witnessing an experiment involving carbon dioxide . .com ---- The original, 1961 version of The Absent-Minded Professor is bound to be a hundred times funnier than the bland remake, Flubber. Fred MacMurray is charming as the eccentric college professor who discovers a gooey substance with sustainable energy. Everything about this movie clicks in a way Flubber didn't, particularly the effort by director Robert Stevenson (a Disney favorite who made Mary Poppins, That Darn Cat, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and many other hits for the studio) to create comic tension between MacMurray's gentlemanly performance and the slapstick set pieces. The famous basketball scene (in which some of the players don't realize they have flubber on the soles of their shoes) is perfectly choreographed and exceptionally funny for kids. --Tom Keogh