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, Nebraska Brainard, Nebraska Brainard is a village in Butler County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 330 at the 2010 census. Brainard was laid out in 1878 when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for David Brainerd, an American missionary to the Native Americans, although the spelling is different. Brainard is located at (41.183725, -97.002832). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 330 people, 152 households, and 90 families residing in the village. The population density was