A distracted professor invents an anti-gravity goo called Flubber that makes anything it's applied to lighter-than-air, including the family flivver and the balls at the school's basketball game. MacMurray couldn't be better in patented Disney fare. Sequel is Son of Flubber. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography (though the film later was colorized).

A professor invents an anti-gravity goo called flubber that makes anything it's applied to lighter-than-air.

Followed by a sequel, 1963's "Son of Flubber."

The Walt Disney laserdisc #028AS is letterboxed to produce a cropped 1.85:1 aspect ratio, falling short of the original aspect ratio of 2.35:1.

Kurt Russell made his first film appearance with a bit part in "The Absent-Minded Professor."

Copyright The Walt Disney Company.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Letterboxed Widescreen - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround Sound - English

Distributor Notes: The Absent-Minded Professor

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!

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Fred MacMurray: American Film/TV Actor
Nancy Olson: American Actress
Keenan Wynn: American actor
Tommy Kirk: Actor/60s Juvenile Lead
Leon Ames: American Actor
Ed Wynn: American Comic Actor/Writer
Edward Andrews: American Actor
David Lewis: Star, mid '50s-'90s, Edward Quartermaine of General Hospital

Robert Stevenson: Director/Screenwriter

Walt Disney: American Producer/Director

Bill Walsh: Producer/Screenwriter

George Bruns: American Composer

Cotton Warburton: Editor