Were The Absent-Minded Professor and Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. made in the same year?
The Absent-Minded Professor The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 American comic science fiction family 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 stars Fred MacMurray as Professor Ned Brainard.
The Dreyfus Affair (film series) The Dreyfus Affair (French: L'affaire Dreyfus ), also known as Dreyfus Court-Martial, is an 1899 series of short silent docudramas, conceived and directed by Georges Méliès. Released by Méliès's Star Film Company and numbered 206–217 in its catalogs, each of the eleven one-minute installments reconstructs an event from the historical Dreyfus affair, which was still in progress while the series was being made.