The Absent-Minded Professor 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 to be produced after 1941. Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray) (pronounced BRAY-nard) 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. Brainard names his discovery "Flubber", which is a
Brainard, Alberta its first classes in September 1929. The school was closed in 1951 centralizing to Goodfare, Alberta. Brainard, Alberta Brainard is an unincorporated locality in northwest Alberta within the County of Grande Prairie No. 1. It is located approximately 61 kilometers () north-west of Grande Prairie, Alberta. The locality was originally established in 1919 and took the name of the first postmaster, Lee Brainard. Lee Brainard first came to southern Alberta in 1906 to continue his successful career as a rancher. However, he arrived in time for the infamous winter of 1906-1907, during which many ranchers in southern Alberta lost much