Ron Mallett

Time travel has long been the stuff of science fiction. For Ron Mallett and Rob Niosi, it’s been a lifelong obsession. A childhood tragedy set Mallett, a theoretical physicist, on the course to find a practical way to conquer time, leading to intriguing discoveries. Niosi’s interest also is rooted in his past, as the Hollywood animator becomes consumed with constructing a full-scale replica of the time machinefrom the 1960 adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.

Probably more than any other single creative and production source, the Motown operation, founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records in January 1959, has made an extraordinarily powerful and significant contribution to popular music over the last 60 years, with a seemingly never-ending supply of uniquely talented artists and writers, chart hits and landmark albums.