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
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