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
History of Disney Channel four seasons respectively on October 16, 2015. In December 2015, Disney Channel acquired for a January 2016 premiere. On January 10, 2016, "Austin and Ally" aired its last two episodes after four seasons. On February 8, 2016, several newsletters reported that Disney Channel acquired a teen music drama called "Backstage" that made its premiere on March 25, 2016. On February 14, 2016, during the channel's premiere of the 2013 animated film "Frozen", Disney Channel aired a preview of "Stuck in the Middle," the first Disney Channel series which all of the main characters are Hispanic. Additional episodes began airing on