Medfield College Medfield College Medfield College is a fictitious college used as the setting for several films by The Walt Disney Company. Among them are the two "Professor Brainard" movies, "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961) and "Son of Flubber" (1963); and the "Dexter Reilly" trilogy: "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" (1969), "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" (1972), and "The Strongest Man in the World" (1975); as well as the remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor", "Flubber" (1997). The town of Medfield, the location of Medfield College, was the setting for another Disney film, "The Shaggy D.A." (1976), implying Medfield was also the
Brainard Cheney as in "Devil's Elbow." In 2011, MMJW BookHouse began republishing Cheney's novels. All four novels are now available in hardcover, softcover and ebook formats. Brainard Cheney Brainard Cheney (June 3, 1900 – January 15, 1990) was a novelist, playwright and essayist from Georgia associated primarily with the literary movement known as the Agrarians. Cheney was born in Fitzgerald, in the wiregrass region of south central Georgia. He moved to Lumber City with his family when he was six years old. He had a writing career that covered four decades. He published four novels — "Lightwood" (1939), "River Rogue" (1942), "This