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How to Build a Time Machine

6.820161h 22mMovieDocumentary

Focuses on two subjects in particular: Rob Niosi, who has spent many years building a full-scale replica of the prop from the 1960 film The Time Machine, and physicist Ronald L. Mallett, who has dedicated his life to researching the scientific possibility of time travel.

DirectorJay Cheel
WriterJay Cheel
ProducersKristina McLaughlin·Kevin McMahon

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Cast · Directed by Jay Cheel

RM
Ronald Mallett
Self
RN
Robert Niosi
Self
BB
Bob Burns
Self
DC
Don Coleman
Self

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