COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1199
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Grade:
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9.2
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0212102029
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Walt Disney’s Absent Minded Professor 04/61
Photo Cover
Script: Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: John Ushler
Table of Contents
1. 0. The Absent Minded Professor
Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
2. 1. The Absent-Minded Professor
Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
3. 2. The Absent-Minded Professor
Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
4. 3. Pioneer Inventors
5. 4. Fabulous Formula
Cartoon And AD back variations exist for this edition
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Wikipedia also adds additional color to the backlground of this film:
The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 American film distributed 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 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 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 made after 1941…
… Production notes[edit]
The aforementioned Prof. Alyea (1903–1996), professor of chemistry at Princeton University, earned the nickname "Dr. Boom" from Russian observers of his demonstrations at the International Science Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair in the 1950s, which had Walt Disney in attendance. Disney told Alyea that he had given him an idea for a movie, and invited Alyea to California to give a demonstration for actor Fred MacMurray, who later mimicked Alyea's mannerisms for the film. MacMurray would later state that he had never understood chemistry until his meeting with Alyea.[1]
The special effects were created by Robert A. Mattey and Eustace Lycett, who were nominated for an Academy Award, and included the sodium screen matte process, as well as miniatures and wire-supported mockups. The film's "Medfield Fight Song" was written by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, their first song for a Disney feature.
Ed Wynn and son Keenan Wynn appear together in this film. The elder Wynn plays the Fire Chief (an inside joke, as Wynn hosted the popular radio program The Fire Chief for most of the 1930s). Keenan also played Alonzo Hawk in Son of Flubber and again in Herbie Rides Again (1974). In the bounce scene, Keenan's character called Ed's character a fathead. Keenan's son Ned also appears uncredited in a bit part.
Medfield College of Technology was used again as the setting for the sequel, Son of Flubber, as well as a later trilogy of Disney "Dexter Riley" films: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975), each starring Kurt Russell and Cesar Romero.
Awards[edit]
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards:[2]
• Best Art Direction (Carroll Clark, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman).
• Best Cinematography (Edward Colman)
• Best Effects, Special Effects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absent-Minded_Professor
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