All Things Bakelite

The Age of Plastic

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All Things Bakelite Yonkers Special Presentation

Grinton I. Will Library
1500 Central Park Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10708

Saturday, November 12, 2022
2-4pm

The two-hour program will honor one of Yonker’s most famous residents, Leo H. Baekeland. In 1907, in his laboratory at Snug Rock over-looking the Hudson River, the Belgian born American chemist and entrepreneur created mankind’s first synthetic plastic. He called it Bakelite, and it changed the world forever. Bakelite was integral to the beginning of the modern Industrial Age. 

This special event will include a screening of the award-winning feature documentary, All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the audience. 

History comes alive with reenactments of Baekeland’s life, rare archival footage, photographs and personal journal entries. Interviews with scientists, historians, professors, artists, as well as satirical musical performances, capture both the wonder and the curse of Baekeland’s discovery. While the film celebrates Baekeland, his invention and its descendants, it does not shy away from the global plastic problem. In the end, it offers a view into essential solutions.

On the panel will be the film’s director John Maher, phenolic resin consultant Dr. Louis Pilato, and Yonkers historian Mary Hoar. Also being honored, posthumously, will be Hugh Karraker, the great-grandson of Leo Baekeland, who was the executive producer of the film and the driving force of bringing Leo Baekeland’s little known, but important story to light. All Things Bakelite is a legacy left by both men that makes Yonkers proud.

View and/or download flyer.

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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/

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The inventor of “the Material of a Thousand Uses” briefly communed with nature in the Adirondacks.

 

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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

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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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