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Top General Entertainment | 1961
Best Effects Special Effects | 1962
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite | 1962 | Hal
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1962
Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1962 | Fred
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1962
Top Cinematography Black and White | 1962
Top Male Comedy Performance | 1961 | Fred
Best Written American Comedy | 1962 | Bill
Budget 2,000,000 USD
At the height of the film's popularity, "Time" Magazine printed the "Disney" special effects department's recipe for Flubber, as used in the movie. It read as follows: "To one pound of salt water taffy add one heaping tablespoon polyurethane foam, one cake crumbled yeast. Mix till smooth, allow to rise. Then pour into saucepan over one cup cracked rice with one cup water. Add topping of molasses. Boil till lid lifts and says 'Qurlp'." It is not recorded whether this also carried the standard warning "do not try this at home".
Three generations of the Wynn family act in this film: Ed Wynn; his son Keenan Wynn; and Keenan's son, Ned Wynn.
The fifth most commercially successful movie at the US domestic box office in 1961, grossing $25,381,407 (the most successful being, by a wide margin, another "Disney" classic, "One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)" at $153 million).
The car is a 1915 Ford Model T. The Model T (with design changes) was in production from 1908-27, selling more than 16,500,000 vehicles. .
Tommy Kirk recalled he was very impressed by how realistic Fred MacMurray's toupees were.
"Prof. Ned Brainard: Let's see, flying rubber... Flubber!"
"Prof. Ned Brainard: Substance X, we dub thee... Flubber!"
