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Hugh Karraker, a documentary filmmaker, environmentalist and plastics historian, died Aug. 17 at age 74. He was a great-grandson of Leo Baekeland, who invented Bakelite, the world's first synthetic ...

Leo Baekeland is the most important inventor you never heard of. That will change if cultural influencers can convey their enthusiasm for a new documentary, " All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic," ...

Planning a movie night with 'All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic' without the hassle? Here’s where you can watch it, including ways to watch including rental, purchase, and subscription options, ...

[ColdTurkey] sent in a really great video for this week’s Retrotechtacular. It’s a half-hour promo reel about Bakelite Plastic. There is so much to enjoy about this film, but we’ve been overlooking it ...

Made of a combination of phenol and formaldehyde, Bakelite is a type of plastic that became popular during the 1930s and 40s as a material not only for jewelry, but for other consumer goods like ...

For plastics aficionados and others, the movie you’ve been waiting for arrives next month. It tells the story of Leo Baekeland, who in 1907 changed the world forever. Baekeland was a Belgian-American ...

Bakelite is the seminal precursor of modern-day plastics, developed in the early 1900s by a Belgian chemist named Leo Baekeland. It includes natural wood flour and heat-set phenol formaldehyde resin, ...