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UMass Lowell screening on April 11, 2017

Hugh Karraker and John Maher, wish to thank Professor Robert Malloy for inviting them to show All Things Bakelite to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty of the Plastics Engineering Department at UMass Lowell on April 11th. 

Professors Stephen Johnston, Margaret Sobkowicz-Kline and David Kazmer, who is replacing Bob as Department head, were also helpful in making the event a great success.  The large auditorium in Ball Hall was almost full and many students stayed afterwards to ask questions. 

After the screening, Hugh and John were treated to a delicious dinner at Cobblestone’s.  A longtime friend of David’s and Hugh’s cousin, Jon Roll of Arlington, Mass., who attended the screening, joined the dinner party.

It was suggested that John and Hugh bring back All Things Bakelite in two years, to show to the new students in the department.  We will be happy to accommodate.  John and Hugh are looking forward to presenting future screenings of All Things Bakelite at educational institutions, libraries and museums in the New England and Tri-State Area.

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April 19th Bethel FilmFest screening

* * * ONE NIGHT ONLY * * *

Bethel Cinema
269 Greenwood Avenue
Bethel, CT  06801

Wednesday, April 19th

6:30 pm Meet the Filmmakers & Reception
7:30 pm screening, followed by Q&A

Special thanks to SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers) for helping us promote this screening at FilmFest 52.


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All Things Bakelite selected for a Remi Award

      
 
 
 
 
 

50th Annual WorldFest Houston Film Festival

April 21-30, 2017
All Things Bakelite team are honored to be selected for a Remi Award
Please join us for our

ATB SCREENING
All Things Bakelite

Sunday April 23rd, 3:00pm
The AMC Studio 30 – Theater #23
Westheimer at Dunvale
2949 Dunvale Rd, Houston, TX 77063
 

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Yonkers Film Fest Features Bakelite Inventor

lohud - All Things Bakelite featured in Film FestivalKaren Roberts, lohud, The Journal News, October 14, 2016
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Documentary examines the life and work of Bakelite inventor Leo Baekeland, the father of modern plastics.

Leo H. Baekeland
Leo Hendrik Baekeland may be the most important inventor you’ve never heard of. Baekeland, who discovered the first synthetic plastic, is the subject of a new documentary, “All Things Bakelite,” featured at the Yonkers Film Festival, on Oct. 22.

The film festival, known as YoFi, runs Oct. 16-23.

Baekeland, who was born in Belgium in 1863, invented Bakelite in 1907 in a lab in Yonkers.

The substance, named after its inventor, was one of the earliest synthetic materials made from phenol and formaldehyde. At the time, it transformed modern life, being used in everything from electronics to automobiles, cookware to jewelry, even billiard balls and toothbrushes were made of Bakelite.

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YoFi Fest to Feature Documentary about Yonkers Inventor

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