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Ludwig Blattner (born 1881; died 1935) was a German-born inventor, film producer and studio owner in the United Kingdom, and developer of one of the earliest sound recording devices.〔(The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, edited by William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein - Google Books ) Palgrave Macmillan, 15 Mar 2011, ISBN 9781403939104〕 == Career == Ludwig Blattner, also known as Louis Blattner,〔("Louis Blattner" ), BFI, retrieved 8 January 2014〕 was a pioneer of early magnetic sound recording, licensing a steel wire-based design from German inventor Dr. Kurt Stille, and enhancing it to use steel tape instead of wire, thereby creating an early form of tape recorder. This device was marketed as the Blattnerphone.〔("Blattnerphone" ), Orbem.co.uk, retrieved 25 December 2013〕 Whilst on a promotional tour of his sound recording technology in 1928 he would choose ladies from the audience to dance with to music being played from a Blattnerphone.〔(The History of Magnetic Recording in the United States, 1888-1978 ) David L. Morton, Jr., PhD thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 1995〕 Prior to the First World war Blattner was involved in the entertainment industry in Liverpool, then in about 1920 he moved to Manchester where he managed a chain of cinemas.〔(The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History ) Palgrave Macmillan, 15 Mar 2011, ISBN 9781403939104〕 Later in the 1920s he bought the British film rights to Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jew Süss although the film was not made until 1934 after Blattner sold on the rights〔(Jew Suss: His Life and Afterlife in Legend, Literature and Film ), - Google Books - by Susan Tegel, Continuum Publishing, London, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4411-6297-7〕 to Gaumont British. Blattner formed the Ludwig Blattner Picture Corporation in Borehamwood in the late 1920s in the studio complex that is now known as Elstree Studios, buying the Ideal Film Company studio (formerly known as Neptune Studios) in Clarendon Road in 1928, renaming it as Blattner Studios.〔(British Film Studios: An Illustrated History - Patricia Warren - Google Books ) pub. Batsford Ltd, 5 Sep 1995. ISBN 978-0713475593〕 In 1928 his company produced a series of short films of musical performances such as "Albert Sandler and His Violin (- Schubert )" and "Teddy Brown and His Xylophone". The best known films produced by his film company were A Knight in London in 1929 and My Lucky Star in 1933, whilst films produced by other companies at the Blattner Studios included Dorothy Gish and Charles Laughton's first drama talkie Wolves in 1930 and the 1934 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart. Ludwig Blattner was also involved in an early colour motion picture process: in about 1929 he bought the rights for the use outside the USA of a lenticular colour process called Keller-Dorian cinematography.〔("Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture" ), edited by Glenda Abramson, -Google Books-, pub. Routledge, April 2013, ISBN 9781134428656〕 This process was then known as the Blattner Keller-Dorian process,〔"Pathe International Corp. to Handle Color Films", Motion Picture News, Volume 39, Jan-Mar 1929, held at Internet Archive http://archive.org retrieved 27 January 2014〕 which lost out to rival colour systems. Ludwig Blattner originally intended the Blattnerphone to be used as a system of recording and playback for talking pictures,〔(The Blattnerphone: An Early Attempt to Introduce Magnetic Recording into the Film Industry ), William Lafferty, Cinema Journal Vol. 22, No. 4 (Summer, 1983), pp. 18-37, pub. University of Texas Press〕 but the BBC saw its potential to record and "timeshift" BBC radio programmes for use with the BBC Empire Service, and rented several Blattnerphones from 1930 onwards, one of which was used to record King George V's speech at the opening of the India Round Table Conference on 12 November 1930.〔(Video Recording Technology: Its Impact on Media and Home Entertainment, Aaron Foisi Nmungwun - Google Books ) pub. Routledge, Nov. 2012. ISBN 9781136466045〕 The 1932 BBC Year Book (covering November 1930 to October 1931) said:〔(The BBC Year-Book 1932 ) p.101, British Broadcasting Corporation, London W.1, retrieved 30 September 2015〕 In 1939 the BBC used a Blattnerphone (not the later Marconi-Stille recorder) to record Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's announcement to Britain of the outbreak of World War II.〔("BBC donates historical collection to National Media Museum to mark 90th anniversary" ), BBC Media Centre, retrieved 5 February 2014〕 In 1930 Blattner promoted a version of his Blattnerphone technology as one of the first telephone answering machines,〔(Telephonic Device Records Messages ) Armour Tech News vol.5 no.10 p.2, April 29, 1930〕 and in 1931 Blatter promoted a version of the Blattnerphone as the Blattner Book Reader, an early Audiobook playback system for the blind.〔(Ludwig Blattner Film Corp. ) LearnAboutMoviePosters.com (LAMP), retrieved 23 February 2014〕〔(The Museum Of Blindiana Official Opening ) New Beacon, Vol. XV. No. 175. 15 July 1931, p.162, Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 from "American Foundation For The Blind inc." source, retrieved 23 February 2014〕 Business problems with the studio, due to the advent of rival talking picture systems, lead to heavy financial loss, and in 1934 Joe Rock leased Elstree Studios from Ludwig Blattner, and bought it outright in 1936, a year after Blattner's suicide.〔("Heavy financial loss" ), ''The Straits Times'', Singapore, 9 November 1935, p.9. Retrieved 25 December 2013〕 After going through several more owners, the studio became the BBC Elstree Centre in 1984. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ludwig Blattner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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