The man who invented “the Material of a Thousand Uses” found solace and solitude in the Adirondacks.
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
David Schwartz and Dolly Curtis welcome Team ATB on WPKN…
Executive Producer Hugh Karraker and Director John Maher
Thank you Dolly Curtis and David Schwartz for hosting the ATB Team on David’s show, Railroad Dave Radio, featuring Dolly’s Backstage Buzz at WPKN studios in Bridgeport, CT Sunday night.
It was a fun time for all. David and Dolly brought up some good points about the first wholly synthetic plastic and its inventor, Leo Baekeland. There was also discussion about the plastic problems of today (waste and toxicity), of which Baekeland had no foreknowledge.
We hope our film inspires a new generation of inventors and innovators to come up with solutions to the plastics problem. During the interview, a 71 year old caller recalled many uses of Bakelite from the past.
To hear the interview, click https://bit.ly/2WVL5bZ. Our segment is the first ½ hour of the two hour recording.
ATB Interview on WPKN 89.5 FM Tonight
and Media Manager Marc Huberman
Dolly Curtis, host of Backstage Buzz, welcomes members of the Connecticut-based production team from the documentary film, All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic.
Hugh Karraker, executive producer, John Maher, director and media manager, Marc Huberman will join Dolly to talk about the movie at WPKN 89.5 FM tomorrow night, April 7 at 10 PM. To listen from your computer, tablet or mobile phone, visit http://www.wpkn.org, then click the “LISTEN NOW” icon in the upper left margin.
If you miss the live in-studio interview, it will available as a podcast on http://www.wpkn.org, under Engineer David Schwartz and on YouTube under Dolly Curtis Interviews Hugh Karraker for Backstage Buzz.
They will discuss the making of the film and its worldwide distribution as an educational tool to tell the story about Hugh’s great grandfather, Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Velox photographic paper and the first wholly synthetic plastic – Bakelite.
The film has been airing on Connecticut CPTV Spirit Channel this week and has three more airdates next week.
Monday, 4/8 4pm
Tuesday 4/9 12am
Wednesday 4/10 11am
Simply click the link to find the corresponding channel number, listed by town and cable provider. https://cptv.org/schedule/cable-channels/
To learn more about our national public television screenings, click https://bit.ly/2HZNeA9. Please share with your colleagues, friends and family. Throughout the year, we will post additional public television airdates and times as they become available to us.
We thank Dolly Curtis, David Schwartz and everyone at WPKN for this interview opportunity.
Learn more about your local neighbors and their achievements on Backstage Buzz.
WPKN 4/7 interview
Dolly Curtis, host of Backstage Buzz, welcomes members of the Connecticut-based production team from the documentary film, All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic.
Hugh Karraker, executive producer, John Maher, director and media manager, Marc Huberman will join Dolly to talk about the movie at WPKN 89.5 FM tomorrow night, April 7 at 10 PM. To listen from your computer, tablet or mobile phone, visit http://www.wpkn.org, then click the “LISTEN NOW” icon in the upper left margin.
If you miss the live in-studio interview, it will available as a podcast on http://www.wpkn.org, under Engineer David Schwartz and on YouTube under Dolly Curtis Interviews Hugh Karraker for Backstage Buzz.
They will discuss the making of the film and its worldwide distribution as an educational tool to tell the story about Hugh’s great grandfather, Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Velox photographic paper and the first wholly synthetic plastic – Bakelite.
The film has been airing on Connecticut CPTV Spirit Channel this week and has three more airdates next week.
– Monday, 4/8 4pm
– Tuesday 4/9 12am
– Wednesday 4/10 11am
Simply click the link to find the corresponding channel number, listed by town and cable provider.
https://cptv.org/schedule/cable-channels/
To learn more about our national public television screenings, click https://bit.ly/2HZNeA9. Please share with your colleagues, friends and family. Throughout the year, we will post additional public television airdates and times as they become available to us.
We thank Dolly Curtis, David Schwartz and everyone at WPKN for this interview opportunity.
Learn more about your local neighbors and their achievements on Backstage Buzz.
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.
[Read more…]Glenn Beall shows film at Rotational Molding Conference
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.
Science History Institute in Philadelphia
As you may recall from our April Newsletter, Marc and Hugh visited the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) in Philadelphia.
NJ SAMPE Screening on June 7
On June 7th, Dr. Louis Pilato, appearing in our film, organized a screening during the monthly meeting of the New Jersey Chapter of SAMPE (Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering). The event was held at Evonik Industries Applied Technology Center in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Marc at NPE the week of May 7
Throughout the week, Media Manager, Marc Huberman pitched our film at the National Plastics Expo in Orlando, Florida. The event is held every three years.Hugh Presents ATB in China
After touring the Summer Palace and The Great Wall in Beijing, Hugh and his wife, Sherry flew to Shanghai where Hugh presented our film at the Baekeland 2018 Symposium. The next day the couple traveled to Hangzhou for the light show and gondola ride on the lake.
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