The Absent Minded Professor

The AbsentMinded Professor is a 1961 American film distributed by Walt Disney Productions 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 stars Fred MacMurray as Professor Ned Brainard.

Professor Brainard pronounced BRAYnerd is an absentminded 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, which is a portmanteau of flying rubber. In the excitement of his discovery, he misses his own wedding to Betsy Carlisle, not for the first time, but his Fourth.. Subplots include another professor wooing the disappointed Miss Carlisle, Biff Hawks ineligibility for basketball due to failing Brainards class, Alonzo Hawks schemes to gain wealth by means of Flubber, the schools financial difficulties and debt to Mr. Hawk, and Brainards attempts to interest the government and military in uses for Flubber. Shelby Ashton, who was interested in Betsy, is given his revenge by the Professor, who keeps on jumping on the top of Shelbys car, until it crashes into a police car, where he is given a speech test.Looking for backers, he bounces his Flubber ball for an audience, but his investment pitch proves so longwinded that most of the crowd has left before they notice that the ball bounced higher on its second bounce than on its first. For a more successful demonstration, he makes his Model T fly by bombarding Flubber with radioactive particles. Other adventures and misadventures result as Flubber is used on the bottoms of basketball players shoes in a crucial game giving them tremendous jumping ability Brainard at a school dance making him an accomplished dancer, and the scheming businessman Alonzo Hawk, who switches cars on the professor, with a car containing a squirrel and pigeons.who must be tackled by a full football team to bring him down after Brainard tricks him into testing Flubber on the bottom of his shoes. The Professor retrieves the old Model T from the warehouse, and Hawk is arrested for having a gun i

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