The Absent-Minded Professor The Absent-Minded Professor The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 American comic science fiction family film produced 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. 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
George Philip (cartographer) George Philip & Son Ltd. In 1949, British Pathé produced "Globe Making", a short newsreel that shows the art of making a globe. The black and white film is shot in a globe-making factory in Willesden, North West London, thought to belong to George Philip & Son Ltd. In 1955, British Pathé revisited the same Willesden, North West London factory to shoot "Globe Making: How the World is Made", a colour newsreel also showing the art of globe making. The films give a fascinating insight into the art of making a globe by hand. George Philip & Son Ltd. continued