The Absent-Minded Professor

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 (for the 1986 video release), 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.