All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic
MovieTitle | All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Mar 1, 2018 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | John E. Maher |
Production country | United States of America |
Run time | 59 min. |
In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was the first wholly synthetic plastic and ushered in an explosion of new man-made materials that marked the beginnings of our modern industrial age.