All Things Bakelite

The Age of Plastic

ATB Screening & Q&A at Bedford Playhouse

On Sunday, November 3rd, 2019, at the Bedford Playhouse Theater, in collaboration with the New Castle, Bedford, and Mount Kisco Historical Societies, will show the award-winning 2018 documentary “All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic.”

Following the screening, Executive Producer, Hugh Karraker, and Director, John Maher will discuss the making of the film and answer questions. A Baekeland/Bakelite display of family heirlooms and vintage items will be available for viewing at the event. Please click the link below for tickets. 

https://bedfordplayhouse.org/special_events/ll-things-bakelite-the-age-of-plastic-screening-qa/

Spring Holidays & Earth Day 2019

 

Team ATB wishes you a joyous Easter and Passover. 

  • Sherry Karraker bought this Bakelite egg container at a flea market in Berlin in 2014

Earth Day is this Monday, April 22nd. For the sake of future generations, it’s imperative we live sustainably. 

To view our film on public television on Earth Day, April 22 in the greater New York City area –  see flyer below. For the state of West Virginia – tune in to your local PBS station.

Please visit our website for additional airings: 
https://bit.ly/2HZNeA9

NYU Review

Lights, Camera, Bakelite!

The Office of Student Affairs Hosts a Fun and Informative Movie Night

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
December 5, 2018

If you don’t think of chemistry as an exciting enough topic for a movie, you probably don’t know much about the life and work of Leo Baekeland, the Belgium-born scientist who produced Bakelite — the very first thermoset plastic — and in the process changed the world.

On November 29, the NYU Tandon community was treated to a showing of All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastics, directed by filmmaker John Maher and executive-produced by Baekeland’s great-grandson, Hugh Karraker. As a bonus, the two were on hand (along with chemist Louis Pilato) to field questions about the iconoclastic scientist; the revolutionary substance he created; and the process of filming a picture that would engage and entertain as it enlightened.

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Glenn Beall shows film at Rotational Molding Conference

Glenn Beall shows film at Blow Molding Conference
Photo credit Russ Broome

During the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Rotational Molding Conference held June 2 – 6 in Warrensville, Ohio, our film was presented by Glenn Beall of Glenn Beall Plastics, Libertyville, Illinois.  Glenn and Hugh first met at an exhibition of Bakelite at the Mark Twain Library in Redding, Connecticut in 2008. He has been a mentor to Hugh and two years ago introduced us to Russ Broome, formerly President and Managing Director at SPE, now Sr. Director, Business Development at PLASTICS Industry Association.

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